My parents are on a wonderful holiday at the moment in Iceland and keep coming across this beautiful white flowered plant all over the place...and thought it was perhaps a kind of Icelandic 'Queen Anne's Lace'...
...doing a little research I discovered that these frothy white flowers are in fact angelica...
...there is a celestial appearance with the starburst-like flower umbels on stalk...
...angelica is native to the Northern Hemisphere and does grow as far north as Greenland, Lapland...and Iceland!
...I remember it as a child, being a decorative feature on cakes - the leaves I think were candied, maybe? or sugared, perhaps?
...apparently it is used by many different peoples around the world medicinally and also the fleshy stalks and young shoots and leaves as food...
...photo credit today to Mum and Dad - thanks :) !!
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