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 Celery mosaic virus Celery mosaic virus (CeMV) is a plant pathogenic virus in the genus" Potyvirus " and the virus family " Potyviridae ". In California (USA), mosaic diseases of celery ("Apium graveolens") were reported as early as 1922. After some time, it became clear that there were at least two different viruses causing mosaic diseases with similar symptoms in celery. These two viruses were first differentiated by host range. One of the viruses had a wide host range and was named "Southern celery mosaic". The second had a host range restricted to the family Umbelliferae (Apiaceae) and was called