Talk:Leaf celery

Cultivar group or botanical variety?
This article has a taxobox, but it appears to me that the subject might be better treated as a cultivar group (with a cultivar infobox) rather than a botanical variety (with a taxobox). The article title may not be the best either; GRIN suggest "Leaf Celery group" as the cultivar group name, and "leaf celery" as another common name. Plantdrew (talk) 05:03, 14 January 2014 (UTC)


 * It's tricky. There's definitely something called Chinese celery that's well known in east Asia. It tends to get listed as A.g.var. secalinum, but it isn't the entirety of that variety: there are European leaf celeries a.k.a. smallage included that don't seem to have much in common aside from not having enlarged roots or stalks. If I could find a reference that gave a name that applied specifically to the Asian cultivars, I would use it. Meanwhile, I think we should have information about whatever-it's-called that you can buy in places that have Asian produce and that doesn't look at all like regular celery, celeriac- or smallage. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:56, 17 January 2014 (UTC)


 * I agree. Leaf celery has been in use in Europe since Antiquity, so I hardly think that the original European kitchen herb had a connection with the Chinese cultivar. I would also like to know when this Chinese cultivar was developed. In the twentieth century or earlier? Cmuusers (talk) 08:01, 16 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I found an article discussing the differences between Chinese celery and its American/European counterparts, as well as some history of the plant.  Will be editing this article shortly.  Plan on adding two new sections shortly. Msolway (talk) 00:28, 3 April 2017 (UTC)