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    Apiaceae Botanical Name: Carrot Family or Celery or Parsley Family or Umbelliferae

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    The Apiaceae family includes 434 genera and about 3700 species of plants. Important genera include Ligusticum, Bunium, Sium, Aegopodium, Foeniculum, Osmorhiza, Sanicula, Coriandrum, Cryptotaenia, and Ammi. Many plants in this family are used as condiments, vegetables, or spices and also have medicinal properties. They have a taproot system, hollow stems, alternate pinnately compound or lobed leaves, and umbel-shaped inflorescences. Flowers are small and white or yellow, and fruits split into two one-seeded carpels. Economically important species include parsley, celery,

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    Apiaceae Botanical Name: Carrot Family or Celery or Parsley Family or Umbelliferae

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    The Apiaceae family includes 434 genera and about 3700 species of plants. Important genera include Ligusticum, Bunium, Sium, Aegopodium, Foeniculum, Osmorhiza, Sanicula, Coriandrum, Cryptotaenia, and Ammi. Many plants in this family are used as condiments, vegetables, or spices and also have medicinal properties. They have a taproot system, hollow stems, alternate pinnately compound or lobed leaves, and umbel-shaped inflorescences. Flowers are small and white or yellow, and fruits split into two one-seeded carpels. Economically important species include parsley, celery,

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    The Apiaceae family includes 434 genera and about 3700 species of plants. Important genera include Ligusticum, Bunium, Sium, Aegopodium, Foeniculum, Osmorhiza, Sanicula, Coriandrum, Cryptotaenia, and Ammi. Many plants in this family are used as condiments, vegetables, or spices and also have medicinal properties. They have a taproot system, hollow stems, alternate pinnately compound or lobed leaves, and umbel-shaped inflorescences. Flowers are small and white or yellow, and fruits split into two one-seeded carpels. Economically important species include parsley, celery,

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    Apiaceae

    Botanical name: Carrot family or Celery or Parsley family or Umbelliferae

    Important genera

    Family includes 434 genera and about 3700 species.

    Example genera:

    • Ligusticum

    • Bunium

    • Sium

    • Aegopodium (Goutweed)

    • Foeniculum (Fennels)

    • Osmorhiza (Sweet cicely, sweetcicely, or sweetroot)

    • Sanicula

    • Coriandrum

    • Cryptotaenia (Honewort)

    • Ammi

    Characteristics:

    Vegetative characters

    Root system: tap root system- large enough to store the useful food materials.

    For example: carrot and parsnip


    Stem: hollow at the points where the leaves are attached. Usually soft, green, aerial.

    The nodes of the stem are swollen.

    Leaf: Leaves are alternate, exstipulate, pinnately compound or palmately lobed with reticulate
    venation.

    Leaf petiole is broadened with sheath surrounding stem or base of leaf.

    Floral characters

    Inflorescence: The flowering head is usually a simple or compound ‘umbel’, but it can be
    reduced to a single flower in some species.

    This flat-topped umbel resembles a flattened umbrella structure.

    Wherein:

    The primary umbel is surrounded by an involucre of bracts and secondary umbel is subtended
    by bractlets.

    Flower: Flowers are arranged in umbels or double umbels.

    Flowers are many, small, white or yellow in color.

    Fruit: The fruit can be divided into 2 parts.

    Mericarps

    Cremocarp- is made up of two one-seeded carpels called as mericarps.

    Seed: Seeds are endospermic with a small embryo. The endosperm may be flat, crescent or
    concave on the ventral side.
    Economic Importance

    Many plants of this family are condiments or vegetables with some of them having medicinal
    properties.

    1. Food source

    • Condiments

    • spice

    • vegetable

    • flavoring of foods, liqueurs, and confectionery (herb).

    2. Medicinal properties

    • Diuretic

    • stimulating

    • antimicrobial

    • antioxidant

    • anti- inflammatory

    • antihypertensive

    • treat bronchitis, hepatitis, gastrointestinal infections, and asthma (Apium graveolens L. or


    celery)

    • antibacterial and antifungal

    Examples and their products:

    Parsley (Petroselinum crispum)

    - Parsley Seed Skin Care


    Celery (Apium graveolens)

    - Celery Juice Powder

    Wild carrot (Daucus carota)

    - Wild Carrot Herbals' Soulshine Day Cream

    Cilantro (Coriandrum sativum)

    - Organic Cilantro Tincture

    Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium)

    - McCormick Chervil Leaves

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