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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 ...
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 Europe and Asia, where it grows in moist ...
The name Allium is ancient, and the plant was known to both the Romans and the Greeks. [51] The name is thought to be Celtic in origin, meaning "to burn", in reference to its taste and smell. [52] One of the earliest uses of the name in botany was by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708).
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).
– Schubert's garlic; Allium schugnanicum Vved. Allium scilloides Douglas ex S.Watson – fragile onion; Allium scorodoprasum L. – sand leek, rocambole, Korean pickled-peel garlic [5] Allium scorzonerifolium Desf. ex Redouté; Allium scotostemon Wendelbo; Allium scrobiculatum Vved. Allium semenovii Regel; Allium senescens L. – aging chive ...
Starting with a 10-acre plot, Don Christopher's ranch became the largest garlic grower in the nation and the offbeat Garlic Festival its signature promoter.
Allium tuberosum (garlic chives, Oriental garlic, Asian chives, Chinese chives, Chinese leek) is a species of plant native to the Chinese province of Shanxi, and cultivated and naturalized elsewhere in Asia and around the world. [1] [4] [5] [6] It has a number of uses in Asian cuisine.