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Allium sativum
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Family:
LILIACEAE
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Citation: Allium sativum L., Sp. Pl. 296. 1753; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1528 (1067). 1928.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Veluthulli
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Tamil name(s):
Lasoon
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English name(s):
Garlic
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Description:
Bulbous herbs; aerial stems to 50 cm tall, erect, simple, herbaceous, green, glabrous, terete, mostly hollow. Bulb of many bulblets, with a papery coating and fibrous roots; bulblets flattened on one side. Leaves flat or very slightly folded, to 30 x 1 cm, glabrous, often glaucous, with a prominent midrib, sheathing. Flowers in dense capitate clusters terminating the stem, covered in a papery spathe; spathe with a long apiculate tip, splitting on one side at anthesis. Flowers greenish, whitish, or pinkish; pedicel 10-20 mm. Tepals 6, in 2 whorls, petal like, usually becoming dry and persisting. Sstamens 6, epipetalous; filaments at base fused into ring, linear, glabrous. Ovary superior, 3-lobed, 3-locular, 2 ovules per locule, crestless, style 1; stigma capitate.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
May-July
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District(s):
Idukki, Palakkad
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Cultivated
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Distribution:
Native of Europe, widely cultivated through out the world
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Green, White, Pink
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Monocotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
Yes
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Endemic to:
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