Allium sativum
Garlic, Cultivated Garlic, Garden Garlic, Gairleog
Description
Commonly known as garlic, it is a perennial plant grown as an annual that produces an edible, aromatic bulb with a strong flavour, consisting of bulbils, and is widely used in cooking to flavour dishes in many traditional recipes.
It requires a sunny position and well-drained soil.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Amaryllidaceae
- Genus
- Allium
- Species
- Allium sativum
Synonyms (3)
- Allium controversum
- Allium longicuspis
- Allium pekinense
