ID this plant! My mystery Asian celery/parsley
I usually know the names of the plants in my garden (at least the ones I put in on purpose), but this year I have an unknown in my vegetable bed and I am turning to the GIEI readership to identify it. I was given the seedling last year by someone who'd received it from someone else (yes, the vagueness is unfortunately real) who said it was a Japanese (or perhaps otherwise Asian) type of celery. So I planted it, and it crept along pretty much ignored, and then this year it kind of exploded and looks like this (about 18 inches high and wide):
It is not the Japanese parsley known as mitsuba or Cryptotaenia japonica (which I actually have seeds for but didn't get around to planting this year). I think it may be Oenanthe javanica, known as water celery or Java water dropwort. This is the closest guess I have, but if anyone recognizes the plant, please let me know!
Yes, I have been eating it (since it's from a presumably reliable if forgotten source), and it tastes similar to both celery and parsley and is quite good. So far I've just thrown bits into stir-fries and the like; I was thinking about making a kind of pesto with it, since I have so much of it, but would appreciate other recipes. Thanks for any help you can give, GIEI readers!
It is not the Japanese parsley known as mitsuba or Cryptotaenia japonica (which I actually have seeds for but didn't get around to planting this year). I think it may be Oenanthe javanica, known as water celery or Java water dropwort. This is the closest guess I have, but if anyone recognizes the plant, please let me know!
Yes, I have been eating it (since it's from a presumably reliable if forgotten source), and it tastes similar to both celery and parsley and is quite good. So far I've just thrown bits into stir-fries and the like; I was thinking about making a kind of pesto with it, since I have so much of it, but would appreciate other recipes. Thanks for any help you can give, GIEI readers!
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