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Old June 14, 2012   #4
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Originally Posted by velikipop View Post
What type of Garlic is it? Looks like elephant garlic to me from the pictures, which is really not a garlic but a member of the leek family.

Alex
Ok this has been bugging the devil out of me.
Elephant garlic looks like garlic and tastes like garlic.
I have seen this same claim on TV shows and on line.
They all say it is not of the garlic family but of the leek family.
Well they are wrong.
Leeks, Garlic and elephant garlic are all of the same family, Amarllidaceae
The sub family is the same, Allioideae.
The genus is the same, Allium.
Only when you get to species do things change.
Garlic, A Sativum.
Leek, A ampeloprasum var. porrum.
Elephant garlic ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum.

Agave, is one that comes surprisingly close to these plants, which are of the same order, Asparagales.
Which Asparagus is the same family as agave Asparagaceae.

Sorry for the boring post but I thought folks might like to know how diverse these plants are.
As for the question I have no idea why that thing only has one clove other than it is a mutation or something of that nature.

And Alex no offense to you, it was your post that reminded me about this.
I just wanted to clear things up.


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