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Celery (Apium graveolens Dulce Group or Apium graveolens var. dulce) [1] is a cultivated plant belonging to the species Apium graveolens in the family Apiaceae that has been used as a vegetable since ancient times. Celery has a long fibrous stalk tapering into leaves.
Apium is a genus, as currently circumscribed by Plants of the World Online, of 12 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, with an unusual highly disjunct distribution with one species in the temperate Northern Hemisphere in the Western Palaearctic (Europe, western Asia, north Africa), and the rest in the temperate Southern Hemisphere in southern Africa, southern South America ...
Leaf celery (Apium graveolens Secalinum Group or Apium graveolens var. secalinum), [1] [2] [3] [4] also called Chinese celery or Nan Ling celery, is a group of ...
This gnarly looking root vegetable — also called celeriac, knob celery, or turnip-rooted celery — comes from the same plant variety as celery stalks (Apium graveloms), but it is cultivated ...
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.
Apiaceae (/ eɪ p iː ˈ eɪ s i ˌ aɪ,-s iː ˌ iː /) or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus Apium, and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers.
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).
Apium prostratum, commonly known as sea celery, is a variable herb native to coastal Australia and New Zealand. [1] The leaves are variable, with toothed leaflets, and a celery like aroma. The tiny white flowers occur in clusters.