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Garlic bulbs and cloves for sale at the Or Tor Kor market in Bangkok A garlic bulb. Garlic is widely used around the world for its pungent flavor as a seasoning or condiment. The garlic plant's bulb is the most commonly used part of the plant. With the exception of the single clove types, garlic bulbs are normally divided into numerous fleshy ...
The generic name Allium is the Latin word for garlic, [9] [10] and the type species for the genus is Allium sativum which means "cultivated garlic". [11] The decision to include a species in the genus Allium is taxonomically difficult, and species boundaries are unclear. Estimates of the number of species are as low as 260, [12] and as high as ...
Tulbaghia violacea, commonly known as society garlic, pink agapanthus, [2] wild garlic, sweet garlic, spring bulbs, or spring flowers, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae. [1] [4] It is indigenous to southern Africa (KwaZulu-Natal and Cape Province), and reportedly naturalized in Tanzania and Mexico. [5]
Related species include garlic, leek, and chives. [15] Cepa is commonly accepted as Latin for "onion"; the generic name Allium is the classical Latin name for garlic. [16] It has an affinity with Spanish: cebolla, Italian: cipolla, Polish: cebula, and the German Zwiebel (this last altered by folk etymology).
Tulbaghia (wild garlic [2] or society garlic) is a genus of monocotyledonous herbaceous perennial bulbs native to Africa, [3] belonging to the amaryllis family. It is one of only two known genera in the society garlic tribe within the onion subfamily. [4] The genus was named for Ryk Tulbagh (1699–1771), one time governor of The Cape of Good ...
Allium oleraceum, the field garlic, is a Eurasian species of wild onion. It is a bulbous perennial that grows wild in dry places, reaching 30 centimetres (12 in) in height. It reproduces by seed, bulbs and by the production of small bulblets in the flower head (similarly to Allium vineale).
Wild garlic in Hampshire, UK. Allium ursinum, known as wild garlic, ramsons, cowleekes, cows's leek, cowleek, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, Eurasian wild garlic or bear's garlic, is a bulbous perennial flowering plant in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae. It is native to Eurasia, where it grows in moist woodland. [2]
The name leek developed from the Old English word lēac, from which the modern English name for garlic also derives. [6] Lēac means 'onion' in Old English and has cognates in other Germanic languages : Danish løg 'onion', Icelandic laukur 'onion', Norwegian løk 'onion', Swedish lök 'onion', [ 7 ] German Lauch 'leek', Dutch look ' Allium ...