Herb
Holy Ghost
B tier
Holy Ghost is an old English common name for garden angelica, reflecting medieval religious and medicinal associations rather than a separate cultivar. Culinary behaviour matches archangelica: candiable stems, strong leaf, aromatic seed. Period recipes calling for Holy Ghost herb mean angelica. Use in historic cookery recreations and liqueur formulas. Name appears in herbals more than modern seed packets, but the plant is standard garden angelica when correctly identified.
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English herbals linked angelica to Holy Ghost naming and protective lore.
Gerard and contemporaries described Holy Ghost plant as angelica.
Holy Ghost lingered as a folk synonym in rural England.
Historical gardening projects restored Holy Ghost as interpretive labelling.