Celery seed

Celery seed

Celery seed
Celery seed is the dried ripe fruit of the umbelliferous herb, usually 60 to 180 cm high, erect, with conspicuously jointed stems bearing well-developed leaves on long expanded petioles. The rigid fruit is small, 1 to 1.5 mm long and 1 mm in diameter, contains a small seed, united or separated, pericarp-some with stalk ends, brown in color and somewhat bitter in taste. The pericarp is intercepted with oil ducts. It is widely used as a spice.
Description
Apium graveolens is a plant species in the family Apiaceae, and yielding celery and celeriac. Cultivars of the species have been used for centuries, whilst others have been domesticated only in the last 200-300 years. Celery was described by Carolus Linnaeus in Volume One of his Species Plantarum in 1753.