Editing Celeriac (section)

== History ==
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Wild celery (''[[Apium graveolens]]''), from which both celeriac and [[celery]] derive, originated in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin.<ref name=POWO_838067-1>{{citation |mode=cs2 |title=''Apium graveolens'' L. |work=[[Plants of the World Online]] |publisher=[[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]] |url=http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:838067-1 |access-date=2024-05-28}}</ref><ref name="Schuchert" /> It was mentioned in the ''[[Iliad]]''<ref>{{cite book
|title=[[Iliad|The Iliad of Homer]]
|at=[[wikisource:el:Ιλιάς/Β#v775|2.776]]
}}</ref> 
and ''[[Odyssey]]''<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Staub |first=Jack |date=2006-11-29 |title=The Vegetable World's Ugly Duckling: Celeriac |language=en |publisher=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6551175 |access-date=2022-07-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.eattheseasons.com/Archive/celery_root.htm
 |year=2010
 |title=eat celery root
 |publisher=eattheseasons.com
 |access-date=29 April 2014
 |archive-date=6 October 2008
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006090000/http://www.eattheseasons.com/Archive/celery_root.htm
 |url-status=dead
 }}</ref> 
as [[wikt:σέλινον|''selinon'']].<ref group=notes>
''Σέλινον'' has been translated by [[Richmond Lattimore|Lattimore]] as "the parsley that grows in wet places," 
by Murray as "[[wikisource:The Iliad (Murray)/Book II|parsley of the marsh]]," 
and by [[Samuel Butler (novelist)|Butler]] as "[[wikisource:The Iliad (Butler)/Book II|wild celery]]."
</ref> Celeriac was grown as a medicinal crop in some early civilizations.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Citation |last=Farooqi |first=A. A. |title=17 – Celeriac |date=2006-01-01 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9781845690175500178 |work=Handbook of Herbs and Spices |pages=313–316 |editor-last=Peter |editor-first=K. V. |series=Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition |publisher=Woodhead Publishing |language=en |isbn=978-1-84569-017-5 |access-date=2022-07-09 |last2=Kathiresan |first2=C. |last3=Srinivasappa |first3=K. N.}}</ref>