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Garlic Allium sativum

(Common name:- Garlic)

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Plant Description

It is a perennial plant which rises to a height of 1-2 ft (0.3-0.6 m) tall at maturity. The foliage comprises a central stem 25 - 100 cm tall, with flat or keeled leaves 30 - 60 cm long and 2 - 3 cm broad.

The leaves are long, narrow and flat like grass, with a crease down the middle and are held erect in two opposite ranks.

The flowers are placed at the end of a stalk rising direct from the bulb and are whitish, grouped together in a globular head and are surrounded by a papery basal spathe; each flower is white, pink or purple, with six tepals 3 - 5 millimetres long. The flowers are commonly abortive and rarely produce any seeds.

A garlic head is generally four to eight centimeters in diameter, white to pinkish or purple, and is composed of numerous (8 - 25) discrete bulbs. The bulb is of a compound nature, consisting of numerous bulblets, known technically as 'cloves,' grouped together between the membranous scales and enclosed within a whitish skin, which holds them as in a sac.

Other Names

Allium sativum
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