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Apium graveolens (wild celery; celeriac)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Celery (Apium graveolens), a marshland plant variety in the family Apiaceae, has been cultivated as a vegetable since antiquity. Depending on location and cultivar, either its stalks, leaves, or hypocotyl are eaten and used in cooking. Celery seed is also used as a spice; its extracts are used in medicines.
View Wikipedia Record: Apium graveolens

Infraspecies

Apium graveolens graveolens
Apium graveolens unranked
Apium graveolens var. dulce (wild celery)
Apium graveolens var. graveolens

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  If the plant is infected with the fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, skin contact with the sap can cause dermatitis in sensitive people; This is more likely to happen to Caucasians;
Lifespan [1]  Biennial
Pollinators [1]  Flies, Bats
Scent [1]  The seeds and the crushed leaves smell strongly of celery.
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [1]  The growing plant is an insect repellent, it repels the cabbage white butterfly so is a good companion for brassicas;
Height [1]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Width [1]  10 inches (0.25 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Rich
Soil Moisture [2]  Damp
View Plants For A Future Record : Apium graveolens

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Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Acremonium apii[5]
Erysiphe heraclei[5]
Puccinia apii[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 7New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0