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
Celery mosaic virus been identified in several weed species in the "Apiaceae" family, including poison hemlock ("Conium maculatum"), mock bishopweed ("Ptilimnium capillaceum") and wild cherry ("Apium leptophyllum"). A 2012 study demonstrated that plants from Solanaceae, Curcurbitacae, Chenopodiaceae, and Amaranthaceae, families, in addition to plants from the Apiaceae family, become infected when mechanically inoculated with purified CeMV. Plants in this study tested positive for the CeMV virus, and displayed similar symptoms to celery, but with reduced severity. There is some confusion in the literature as to whether CeMV can infect hosts in the family "Chenopodiaceae". In 2002, a paper reporting the results of a