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Celery
Apium graveolens
Celery (Apium graveolens) is a marshland plant in the family Apiaceae that has been cultivated as a vegetable since antiquity. Celery has a long fibrous stalk tapering into leaves. 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 and its extracts have been used in herbal medicine.
Where it lives
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.34
Micrographia nova: sive nova & curiosa variorum minutorum corporum singularis cujusdam & noviter
Griendel, Johann Franz · 1687 · p.133
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 3)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.75
Maria Sibylla Merian — Der rupsen begin, voedzel en wonderbaare verandering (1712)
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1717 · p.311
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.33
On the Virtues of Herbs
Macer Floridus · 1150 · p.51
Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.31
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.38
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.39
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.38
Herbal of Virtues
1499 · p.33
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.130
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 58788.