Cilantro is also known as coriander, salt coriander, caraway, fragrant coriander, extended coriander, and diffuser.

For the dicotyledonous plant class, umbelliferae, umbelliferae, coriander genus of a plant species, a biennial herb, is familiar with the flavor of the vegetable, like celery, small and tender leaves, slender stems, taste and aroma, is the soup, drink in the spices, more used to do cold dishes with spices, or hot, noodle dishes to enhance the flavor with.

Morphological features

Annual or biennial, strong-smelling herb, 20-100 cm tall. Roots fusiform, slender, with numerous slender branch roots. Stem terete, erect, much branched, striate, usually smooth. Rooted leaves are stalked, the stalks 2-8 cm long.

Leaf blade 1- or 2-pinnatisect, pinnae broadly ovate or flabellate-cleft, 1-2 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, margins obtusely serrate, notched, or y cleft, upper cauline leaves 3- to many-pinnatisect, ultimate segments narrowly linear, 5-10 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, obtuse at the tip, entire. Umbels terminal or opposite the leaves, peduncles 2-8 cm long. Rays 3-7, 1-2.5 cm long. Involucral bracteoles 2-5, linear, entire. Umbellules with pregnant flowers 3-9, flowers white or lilac.