Ajmoda Herbs is an important salad plant. In India, the leaves are not so popular. The word celery is derived from Latin, celery which means quick acting, and presumably refers to its therapeutic properties. Scientifically Ajmoda Herbs is known as Apium graveolens. Apium graveolens comes under the family of Apiaceae. The genus is derived from Latin, means bee because bees are attracted towards its off white flowers. The species graveolens means heavily perfumed. It is cultivated as a cold crop in India. It is believed that in ancient Greece, people crown the heads of the athletes with the leaves of Ajmoda to honour them. In the 17th century, it got hybridized to make its bitter taste less prominent.
