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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 ...
Garlic (Allium sativum) has been cultivated for thousands of years and is an incredibly easy vegetable to grow.While grocery stores tend to carry only one or two types of garlic, hundreds of ...
Snow Mountain garlic (also known as Allium sativum, Allium schoenoprasum, and Kashmiri garlic), is a type of garlic found in mountainous Jammu and Kashmir.It grows well in the western Himalayas at altitudes of up to 1,800 m (6,000 ft), in temperatures as low as −10 °C (14 °F), and with very little oxygen. [1]
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 ...
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 ...
Used for the urinary tract. [11] Allium sativum: Garlic: Purported use to lower blood cholesterol and high blood pressure. [12] Aloe vera: Aloe vera: Leaves are widely used to heal burns, wounds and other skin ailments. [13] Althaea officinalis: Marsh-mallow: Used historically as both a food and a medicine. [2] Amorphophallus konjac: Konjac
Black garlic. Black garlic is a type of aged garlic that is colored deep brownish-black. The process is of East Asian origin. It is made by placing garlic (Allium sativum) in a warm, moist, controlled environment over the course of several weeks, a process that produces black cloves. Black garlic is used in a wide variety of culinary applications.
Garlic – Allium sativum, commonly known as garlic, is a species in the onion genus, Allium. [27] [28] Ginger – Ginger or ginger root is the rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinale, consumed as a delicacy, medicine, or spice.