Back Knoffel Afrikaans ነጭ ሽንኩርት Amharic Allium sativum AN Garleac ANG ثوم Arabic توم ARZ নহৰু Assamese Allium sativum AST Ajusa Aymara Sarımsaq Azerbaijani
| Garlic | |
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| Subfamily: | Allioideae
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| Tribe: | Allieae
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| Species: | A. sativum
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| Allium sativum | |
Garlic (species Allium sativum) is a type of plant that people eat for food.[1] Garlic is related to onions, shallots, and leeks. It has a very strong flavor and smell. Most of the time, people use it as a flavoring so that it helps make food taste better.
Garlic is used as herbal medicine in the treatment of cold and flu.[2] It has side effects of heartburn, flatulence and sweating.[1]
The part of the garlic plant that people eat is called the head. It grows at the bottom of a long green stalk. People pull the head apart into smaller pieces called cloves of garlic. Cloves have papery skin on them. People peel off the skin before cooking the cloves.[3]
People plant garlic in the fall right after the first frost. They plant the clove like a seed. One clove can grow into a whole head. The garlic plant grows its roots before the ground freezes for winter. People harvest (collect) the garlic in the middle of the next summer.