Celery Stalks

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Celery (Apium graveolens L.) is a vegetable, more specifically a biennial plant belonging to the order Umbelliferae (Apiales).

It has a furrowed stalk with wedge-shaped leaves, the whole plant having a coarse, rank taste, and a peculiar smell. With cultivation and blanching, the stalks lose their acrid qualities and assume the mild, sweetish, aromatic taste peculiar to celery as a salad plant.