Coriander. [Photo/VCG]

5. Coriander 香菜

Coriander, known as cilantro or Chinese parsley, is native to the regions spanning from southern Europe to central Asia. Zhang brought the seeds of coriander into China, according to The Compendium of Materia Medica, an ancient Chinese book on herbology, which was written during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) by Doctor Li Shizhen.
香菜，也叫芫荽或中式西芹，原產于南歐到中亞的大片地區。據明代（1368-1644年）醫師李時珍所著《本草綱目》記載，是張騫將香菜種子帶入了中國。