I have some fennel plants, they look exactly like fennel, taste like it, flower like it, and make seeds like it that taste like fennel seeds.

I recently pulled all of the plants I have to find a lot of big taproots, someone said you could eat fennel so I looked it up but realized I must have either Bronze Fennel or some wildtype. It only has taproots (link).

Can someone clear this up - I'm not sure if I can eat the roots, I put one in a blender and it isn't too bad in smoothie form with other stuff but I can tell parts of it are pretty fibrous.

I was thinking of making soup with these roots but am not so sure after seeing how fibrous they are.

Here is a link that might be useful: This is what my fennel roots look like