SC - Re: A fennel question

[Decker, Terry D.]

It is probably a grocer's goof.  Fennel and anise are both members of the
carrot family, but they are different plants.

Anise is Pimpinella anisum.  Fennel is applied to several herbs mostly in
the genus Foeniculum, most commonly Foeniculum vulgare.

Bear
 
> Was this a goof up on the part of the grocer, or are they so 
> closely related 
> that even their roots taste the same? If someone tells me 
> they are one and 
> the same, I will voluntarily crawl under that rock.
> 
> Hauviette