Apium graveolens
Celery, Wild Celery, Marsh parsley, Smallage, Celeriac, Turnip-rooted celery, Carrot, Seellerije, Seladri
Description
A herbaceous plant cultivated, depending on the variety, for the head or root used in the culinary field to add flavour to typical Italian dishes or as a side vegetable. Of average rusticity, it prefers a cool climate and well-draining soil, and to obtain a good final yield it requires irrigation and fertilisation in proportion to its needs in the various stages of development.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Apiales
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Genus
- Apium
- Species
- Apium graveolens
Synonyms (19)
- Apium celleri
- Apium decumbens
- Apium dulce
- Apium integrilobum
- Apium lusitanicum
- Apium maritimum
- Apium palustre
- Apium rapaceum
- Apium vulgare
- Carum graveolens
- Celeri graveolens
- Helosciadium graveolens
- Helosciadium ruta
- Helosciadium rutaceum
- Seseli graveolens
- Sison ruta
- Sium apium
- Sium graveolens
- Smyrnium laterale
