Celery Essential Oil - Apium graveolens

Celery Essential (Volatile) Oil

Celery: / 'sel∂ri / n Vegetable stem (the greenish-white stems of a small plant) generally eaten uncooked, often with cheese.

Latin (Botanical) name: Apium graveolens L.

Common name: Celery, Karafs, Batt, Qarrabees, Karabees.

Family: Umbelliferae, Apiaceae (Carrot family).

Method of extraction (Yield): Steam distilled from dried fruits (seeds).

Origin: Egypt.

Celery, common name for a biennial herb of the parsley family, a native of Europe but now widely grown throughout the world. The stalks, about 30 to 76 cm (about 12 to 30 in) high in cultivated varieties, are eaten, raw or cooked, as a vegetable or salad. When allowed to grow naturally, the stalks are greenish in color and slightly bitter in taste. They are often blanched during the last stages of their growth by preventing access of sunlight except to the leaves; this process removes the color and the bitter taste, but also some of the vitamins. If allowed to grow a second year, celery sends up flower stalks about 61 to 91 cm (about 24 to 36 in) tall with small white flowers in umbels. The dried fruit of celery is used as a condiment alone under the name of celery seed or ground and mixed with salt under the name of celery salt. Celery seed is also used in pharmacy as a sedative or to disguise the flavor of other drugs.

Scientific classification: Celery belongs to the family Apiaceae. It is classified as Apium graveolens.

Plant family: Apiaceae, Umbelliferae A. Juss.

►Umbelliferae A. Juss.

►Not spiny.

►Not so (Leaves undivided with entire margin).

►Umbel-rays not woolly.

►Leafy herbs, root not globose.

►++Bracteoles present (= the narrow leaves supporting the small secondary umbels).

► Fruit beakless.

► Fruit spineless.

► Fruit cylindrical, ovoid or globose.

► Leaves thin.

►Bracts absent.

►Petals not radiating.

►Umbels leaf-opposed… APIUM L.▼

►+++Bracteoles absent.

►Flowers white.

►Fruit glabrous… APIUM L. ▼

►Genus APIUM L.: Glabrous plants with small white flowers. Bracts absent, bracteoles present or absent. Fruit glabrous, globose, or ovate-oblong, somewhat compressed from the sides.

►Bracteoles absent.

►Robust plant with broad pinnate leaves… Apium graveolens L.

►APIUM GRAVEOLENS L.: Of heavy aromatic smell, umbels short-peduncled. Leaves pinnate with petioled 3-lobed leaflets.

Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.

Oil specification:

Specific gravity: 0.872 – 0.912 @ 25°C.

Refractive index: 1.482 – 1.488 @ 20°C.

Perfumery note / Strength: Top, Middle / Strong.

Blends With: Lavender, etc…

Action and Uses: Herbal (Traditional) medicine (dosage), Flavo(u)r, Fragrance and Aromatherapy (bath, massage, skin, hair, steam inhalation, vaporization, etc.)...

Part used: Seeds (fruits) for oil extraction.

Propagation: Fruits (seeds), annual plant commercially or perennial plant cultivated in Upper Egypt.

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