it’s closely related to the common garden carrot. If you’ve got the two growing side-by-side it’s easy for the transfer of insects and disease and pathogens from the wild stand of carrot to your garden carrots
Also, if you’re not ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE how to pronounce a word, do not use it in your elevator speech. Ditto if you aren’t sure that you’re using it correctly. Writers often use words that they’ve never heard spoken aloud; most inveterate readers do. But do you really want the ...