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Plant Apium graveolens (Apiaceae)

Common Names
Celery
How this plant is used
Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Leaf Essent. Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Seed Essent. Oil not available 1000.0 -1.01 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Fruit Essent. Oil 3000.0 14000.0 -0.30 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Leaf Essent. Oil not available 1000.0 -0.84 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Root Essent. Oil not available 69000.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Seed 1.0 420.0 -0.37 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINEOL 23 Seed Essent. Oil 5000.0 14000.0 -0.65 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TERPINYL-ACETATE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TERPINYL-PROPIONATE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Leaf 136.0 266.0 -0.23 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Plant 0.0 64.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Seed not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Shoot 0.0 64.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL 32 Pt 3.0 67.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
ALUMINUM 5 Root 0.3 9.0 -0.31 ACTA AGRIC SCAND SUPPL 22: 1980
AMMONIA 0 Stem not available 19600.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
AMMONIA 0 Pt not available 15480.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
ANGELIC-ACID 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Enterotoxic 1 Wichtl, M. 1984. Teedrogen. Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker und Arzte. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellscharft. mbH Stuttgart. 393 pp.
Epinephrininergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic 1 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential 8 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic 8 Duke, 1992 *
Estrogenic? 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Expectorant 8 Duke, 1992 *
Fatal 1 Martindale's 29th
Febrifuge 1 Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Ferulosys-genic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fibrinolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive 1 Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Flatugenic 2 Martindale's 29th
FLavor 56 Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide 46 Duke, 1992 *
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 3 Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gastroirritant 1 Martindale's 29th