Celery the winners of the sacred Nemean Games was also made of celery. The Ancient Greek colony of Selinous (, "Selinous"), on Sicily, was named after wild parsley that grew abundantly there; Selinountian coins depicted a parsley leaf as the symbol of the city. The perennial BBC television series Doctor Who featured the Fifth Doctor (played by Peter Davison, from 1981–84), who wore a sprig of celery as a corsage. The name "celery" retraces the plant's route of successive adoption in European cooking, as the English "celery" (1664) is derived from the French "céleri" coming from the Lombard term, "seleri", from
Pineda (plant) "Prockia", "Banara", "Hasseltiopsis", and "Neosprucea". "Pineda" was named in honor of Antonio Pineda, a Guatemalan botanist who was coordinator of the naturalists aboard the Pacific expedition of Alessandro Malaspina. "Pineda incana" is known as "lloqui," "lloque," "lloquecillos," or "manzanitas cimarronas," and "Pineda ovata" is known as "duraznillo." "Pineda ovata" is commonly misidentified as "Prockia crucis" (Salicaceae). Pineda (plant) Pineda is a genus of flowering plants in the willow family, Salicaceae. It contains two species of shrubs: "Pineda incana", which is native to the Andes of Ecuador and Peru, and "Pineda ovata", which is native to the Andes of Bolivia. "Pineda"