Accession details

BOTH HOLLOW AND SOLID PETIOLES. PLANTS VARIABLE. Dr. Lynn Epstein from UC Davis Plant Pathology indicated in an email correspondance 2022-10-11: "We have been working with Apium graveolens PI 181714 for a number of years as a source of resistance to Fusarium ozysporum f. sp. apii and have grown the accession on multiple occasions in both the greenhouse and the field. The database says that it was obtained from a seed dealer in Damascus, Syria in 1948, and that it is a celeriac (Apium graveolens L. var. rapaceum). It is certainly not a celeriac and does not have a hint of an enlarged hypocotyl. I would say that it’s smallage/cutting celery/leaf celery/Chinese celery, A. graveolens L. var. secalinum, but it’s conceivable that it’s wild celery, A. graveolens L. var. graveolens. Can the var. rapaceum be removed, and perhaps replaced with secalinum? Or alternatively, just designated as A. graveolens without a var. designation?". ZJS made the change from "Apium graveolens L. var. rapaceum" to "Apium graveolens".