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Garlic leaves are a popular vegetable in many parts of Asia. The leaves are cut, cleaned, and then stir-fried with eggs, meat, or vegetables. Garlic powder is made from dehydrated garlic and can be used as a substitute for fresh garlic, though the taste is not quite the same. Garlic salt combines garlic powder with table salt.
Allium flavum (yellow) and Allium carinatum (purple). Allium is a large genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants with around 1000 accepted species, [4] [5] making Allium the largest genus in the family Amaryllidaceae and amongst the largest plant genera in the world. [6]
Cruciferous vegetables are vegetables of the family Brassicaceae (also called Cruciferae) with many genera, species, and cultivars being raised for food production such as cauliflower, cabbage, kale, garden cress, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, mustard plant and similar green leaf vegetables. The family takes its alternative name ...
Allium moly, also known as yellow garlic, [4] golden garlic and lily leek, Is a species of flowering plant in the genus Allium, which also includes the flowering and culinary onions and garlic. A bulbous herbaceous perennial from the Mediterranean. [5] [6] It is edible and used as a medicinal and ornamental plant.
A recent study involving 833 people in China found that consumption of vegetables containing allium (like garlic, leeks and onions) was associated with a lowered risk of colorectal cancer.
No cure is known and affected plants should be uprooted and burned. The site should not be used for growing onions again for several years and should also be avoided for growing carrots, parsnips, and beans, which are also susceptible to the eelworm. [74] White rot of onions, leeks, and garlic is caused by the soil-borne fungus Sclerotium ...
A leek is a vegetable, a cultivar of Allium ampeloprasum, the broadleaf wild leek (syn. Allium porrum). The edible part of the plant is a bundle of leaf sheaths that is sometimes erroneously called a stem or stalk. The genus Allium also contains the onion, garlic, shallot, scallion, chives, [3] and Chinese onion.
The Amaryllidaceae include many ornamental garden plants such as daffodils, snowdrops and snowflake, pot plants such as amaryllis and Clivia, and vegetables, such as onions, chives, leeks and garlic. A number of tropical lily-like plants are also sold, such as the belladonna lily , Amazon lily , blood lily (Cape tulip), Cornish lily (Nerine ...