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What is Tamcha?

Probably a type of bitter parsley, specifically gingidion or staphylinus.

Possibly endive.

Not horseradish, or related to it.

A few salient points:

1. Horseradish was not used at all for marror until Middle-age Europe.

2. Horseradish probably did not exist in Israel during Biblical, or Talmudic times

3. Horseradish is not bitter.