Celery ( Latin Apium ) is a genus of herbaceous plants of the Umbrella family ( Apiaceae ).
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Apium graveolens L. [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
The most famous species of Celery odorous ( Apium graveolens ) is a common vegetable crop .
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Etymology
The Russian name celery originated by borrowing from the Dutch name selderij , either from the German sellerie or French céleri , which in turn are borrowed from the Latin selīnum (from the Greek σέλινον - "celery") [3] [4] .
Botanical Description
Biennial or perennial plants of medium and large sizes with a thickened root, preferring to grow on wet soils of swamps and salt marshes . They grow up to 1 m in height and have twice cirrus-dissected leaves on a furrow-branched stalk and small greenish-white flowers collected in complex umbrella inflorescences . The roots of the plant contain sugar, and the leaves are vitamin C.
Historical background
In ancient Egypt, celery was grown as a medicinal plant.
In ancient Greece and Rome, celery leaves crowned the victorious warriors.
Since the 16th century, it began to be grown in Italy, in France and England, as a food aromatic plant.
Other information
The plant was considered to bring happiness, and it was often hung in rooms with onions and garlic .
Views
According to the database of The Plant List , the genus includes 17 species [5] :
- Apium annuum psshort
- Apium australe thouars
- Apium bermejoi llorens
- Apium commersonii DC.
- Apium crassipes ( WDJKoch ex Rchb. ) Rchb.f.
- Apium fernandezianum johow
- Apium graveolens L. typus [2] - Odorous celery , or cultured celery
- Apium insulare PSShort
- Apium inundatum (L.) Rchb.f.
- Apium larranagum M. Hiroe
- Apium × moorei ( Syme ) Druce
- Apium nodiflorum ( L. ) Lag. - Celery
- Apium panul ( DC. ) Reiche
- Apium prostratum Labill.
- Apium repens ( Jacq. ) Lag.
- Apium santiagoensis M. Hiroe
- Apium sellowianum H.Wolff
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of indicating the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ 1 2 Information about the genus Apium (English) in the Index Nominum Genericorum database of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) .
- ↑ Celery , Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language. - M .: Progress // M.R.Fasmer, 1964-1973.
- ↑ Celery , Krylov’s Etymological Dictionary.
- ↑ Apium . The Plant List . Version 1.1. (2013). Date of treatment January 7, 2017.
Literature
- Apium // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.