Fennel

Today I m not in the mood to save the world, the world doesn t save me eather! :-))
Actually this polluted world makes me sick. Everytime I eat something outside the home, I get sick. I think, the hygenic standards are not very high here and I am prone to get easily sick for a long time...
But this was also not what I wanted to write. Actually I wanted to write about a plant, I have rediscovered here again.
Fennel. First I didn t like this plant, as I didn t know it really. The cheap and bad teabag I had drunk was not a culinary high point. Then I have eaten it once in a Viennese Restaurant and this was really good. Then my friend has cooked it once for us. And I fell in love with this plant. But afterwards I didn t see this plant. I have not eaten it for a long time.
I came across the fennel seeds and I have bought them immediately but I didn t use them much. As I like the bulbs more, cooked with olive oil, cheese and tomato. And this time I was surprised to see the leaves of this plant grown soo exuberant.
I am not sure if i have used the right adjective, I mean soo big. Now I have understood why they call it

'Arapsaçı' in turkish. It looks like wild hair, like a mane.?