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Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
Celeriac (Apium graveolens Rapaceum Group, synonyms Apium graveolens Celeriac Group and Apium graveolens var. rapaceum), [1] also called celery root, [2] knob celery, [3] and turnip-rooted celery [4] (although it is not a close relative of the turnip), is a group of cultivars of Apium graveolens cultivated for their edible bulb-like hypocotyl, and shoots.
Angelica is the Latin feminine name implying "angel-like" from the mid-16th century, probably named for the plant due to its scent. [16] Archangelica derives from "an angel of the highest order," an Old French term in the late ( 12th century ), or from the Greek word "arkhangelos" ("chief angel").
Oshá grows in the same habitat in areas of the Mountain West of North America with poison hemlock and water hemlock, highly poisonous members of the same family.Oshá particularly resembles poison hemlock, but is easily distinguished from it by its "spicy celery" odor, hair-like material on root crowns, and dark chocolate-brown, wrinkled root skin.
Apium graveolens, known in English as wild celery, [2] [3] is an Old World species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae.It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.. The species is widely naturalised outside of its natural range and is used as a vegetable; modern cultivars have been selected for their leaf stalks (), a large bulb-like hypocotyl (), and their leaves (leaf celery).
Celery leaves are pinnate to bipinnate with rhombic leaflets 3–6 centimetres (1– 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) long and 2–4 cm (1– 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) broad. The flowers are creamy-white, 2–3 mm (3 ⁄ 32 – 1 ⁄ 8 in) in diameter, and are produced in dense compound umbels. The seeds are broad ovoid to globose, 1.5–2 mm (1 ⁄ 16 – 5 ⁄ 64 ...
Articles relating to celery (Apium graveolens), a marshland plant in the family Apiaceae that has been cultivated as a vegetable since antiquity. Pages in category "Celery" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Illustration from Floral Poetry and the Language of Flowers (1877). According to Jayne Alcock, grounds and gardens supervisor at the Walled Gardens of Cannington, the renewed Victorian era interest in the language of flowers finds its roots in Ottoman Turkey, specifically the court in Constantinople [1] and an obsession it held with tulips during the first half of the 18th century.