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Latin (Botanical) name: Apium graveolens L.

Family: Umbelliferae, Apiaceae.

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

Origin: Egypt.

Plant description:

UMBELLIFERAE A. Juss. Not spiny. Umbel-rays not woolly. Leafy herbs, root not globose. Bracteoles present ( = the narrow leaves supporting the small secondary umbles). Fruit beakless. Fruit spineless. Fruit cylindrical, ovoid or globose. Leaves thin. Bracts absent. Petals not radiating. Umbels leaf-opposed. APIUM. Bracteoles absent. Flowers white. Fruit glabrous. 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. : 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.

Propagation: Fruits (seeds), cultivated in Upper Egypt.

Species List

Genus.

Botanical Family.

Product Photo. 

Alfalfa

Anise seed

Atrillal, Bishop's Weed

Basil

Beet

Caltrops, Tribulus

Celery

Chamomile, Matricaria

Clover, Egyptian

Coriander

Croton

Epazote

Fennel seed

Harmala, African rue

Hibiscus (Karkade)

Milk thistle

Nut grass

Plantain

Ploughmans spikenard

Saltbush

Thistle, Sonchus

Zilla

Zygophyllum

Chenopodiaceae.

Compositae.

Cruciferae.

Cyperaceae.

Euphorbiaceae.

Gramineae.

Labiatae.

Plantaginaceae.

Sterculiaceae.

Umbelliferae.

Zygophyllaceae.