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Are parsley leaves edible?

Usually, parsley leaves are able to be eaten.

If the parsley leaves appear to be rotten or moldy, it is not recommended to eat them.

Introduction of parsley:

Parsley (scientific name: Libanotis seseloides? (Fisch. et Mey. ex Turcz.) Turcz.) is a plant of the umbelliferae family, the genus Rockwind. It is a perennial herb, 30-120 cm tall. Root neck stout and short, ringed, with withered sheath fibers surviving at upper end; roots terete, tapering at end, usually with a few lateral roots. Stems erect or slightly flexuous, single or 2-3-stemmed from base, stout, 0.3-1.2 cm in diameter, base subterete.

Leaf blade elliptic or broadly elliptic in outline, 5-18 cm long, 4-10 cm wide, 3-pinnatisect. Umbels much branched, the upper end of the peduncle hispidulous, compound umbels 2-7 cm in diameter; involucral bracts usually absent, occasionally 1-5, linear or conical; rays 8-20, slightly unequal, hirsute on the inner side and at the base; stylopodium compressed-conic, styles long.

Branched fruit ovate, slightly compressed dorsoventrally, 2.5-3.5 mm long, ca. 1.5 mm wide, prominently 5-angled; vittae 3-4 in each angular groove, connivent facets with vittae 6. Flowering July-September, fruiting August-October.

Distributed from C Europe to E Asia, Russia (E Siberia and Far East), Korea (N); in China it is distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, and other provinces and regions. Born in meadows, open grasslands on mountain slopes, forest margins and thickets.