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Elephant garlic is not generally propagated by seeds. Like regular garlic, elephant garlic can be roasted whole on the grill or baked in the oven, then used as a spread with butter on toast. Fresh elephant garlic contains mostly moisture and foams up like boiling potatoes, whether on the stove or in a glass dish in the oven.
Allium ampeloprasum is a member of the onion genus Allium.The wild plant is commonly known as wild leek or broadleaf wild leek.Its native range is southern Europe to southwestern Asia and North Africa, [2] but it is cultivated in many other places and has become naturalized in many countries.
A. scorodoprasum is edible but seldom cultivated, and has a shorter flower stalk and fewer and more inconsistently shaped cloves than Rocambole garlic. Sand leek also has a dark violet bulb wrapper. [13] Elephant garlic (properly A. ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum) is also sometimes incorrectly sold as A. scorodoprasum. [citation needed]
Air potato can grow extremely quickly, roughly 8 inches per day, and eventually reach over 60 ft long. [6] It typically climbs to the tops of trees and has a tendency to take over native plants . New plants develop from bulbils that form on the plant, and these bulbils serve as a means of dispersal .
Some lilies, such as the tiger lily Lilium lancifolium, form small bulbs, called bulbils, in their leaf axils. Several members of the onion family, Alliaceae, including Allium sativum ( garlic ), form bulbils in their flower heads, sometimes as the flowers fade, or even instead of the flowers (which is a form of apomixis ).
Solo garlic, also known as single clove garlic, chinese garlic, monobulb garlic, single bulb garlic, or pearl garlic, [1] [2] is a type of Allium sativum . [3] The size of the single clove varies from approximately 25 to 50 mm in diameter, with an average size between 35 and 45 mm. [ 2 ] It has the flavour of the garlic clove but is somewhat ...
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Allium paradoxum is a herbaceous perennial growing from a small solitary bulb to about 20–40 cm (7.9–15.7 in) in height. It has much narrower leaves, from 5 to 25 mm (0.20 to 0.98 in) wide, than Allium ursinum but a similar 'garlicky' smell.