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Tom Roberts
Posted at:
January 26, 2025
Thanks for responding, here's a photo of the plant.The plant is lovage (Levisticum officinale). In Bulgarian it is known as 'devesil'. Typically this herb is not used in the dried form, so I am very interested to hear that your wife's grandmother used it dried and not fresh. We have always subscribed to the dogma that lovage can only be used fresh; perhaps we need to revisit that!![]()
My wife's grandmother brought a herb to the US from Bulgaria over 80 years ago, she called it divisil, I am unsure of the spelling. She dried the leaves and used it as a spice in cooking. It has a very strong scent some people think it smells like dill. Have you ever heard of it? I can photograph the plant if it would help.None of our name databases have the name 'divisil' in it so I have no idea what this plant might be. If you can send a photo perhaps I can provide some clues as to what it might be. When sending photos be sure to keep the total size of the photo and message under 2 megabytes in size otherwise your message will be rejected by our mail server.