Plant type: Perennial tender herb. Light: Sun, light shade, shade. Size: Florence fennel; grows to 4 feet into a bushy beautiful beautiful green plant. Bronze fennel; grows to 4 feet into a bushy beautiful bronze plant.Zones: 4 - 9 Water: Average. Soil: Grows best in rich moist soil. Propagation: Seed. Note: Host or larval food plant for the Eastern Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes butterfly and the Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon butterfly.lant type: Perennial tender herb. Light: Sun, light shade, shade. Size: Florence fennel; grows to 4 feet into a bushy beautiful beautiful green plant. Bronze fennel; grows to 4 feet into a bushy beautiful bronze plant.
The giant clam is considered a delicacy in Japan (known as himejako), France, South East Asia and many Pacific Islands. Some Asian foods include the meat from the muscles of clams.On the black market, giant clam shells are sold as decorative accoutrements.any small clams die at this stage. The clam is considered a juvenile when it reaches a length of 20 cm. It is difficult to observe the growth rate of T. gigas in the wild, but laboratory-reared giant clams have been observed to grow 12 cm a year.
The hard clam has many alternative common names. It is also known as the Northern quahog, round clam, or chowder clam. In fish markets there are specialist names for different sizes of this species of clam.The smallest legally harvestable clams are called countnecks, next size up are littlenecks, then topnecks.onfusingly, the ocean quahog is a different species, Arctica islandica, which, although superficially similar in shape, is in a different family of bivalves: it is rounder than the hard clam, usually has black periostracum, and there is no pallial sinus in the interior of the shell. Contents.