Quick Details
- Processing Time:10 days
- Port:Lagos Nigeria
- Supply Ability: 10 Metric Tons Per Year
- Brand Name:Garlic
- Model Number:02120
- Place of Origin:Nigeria
- Brand Name:Garlic
Garlic, (Allium sativum), perennial plant of the amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae), grown for its
flavourful bulbs. The plant is native to central Asia but grows wild in Italy and southern France
and is a classic ingredient in many national cuisines. The bulbs have a powerful onionlike aroma and pungent taste and are not usually eaten raw.
Garlic plants grow about 60 cm (2 feet) tall. Depending on the variety, the long leaves typically arise from a short hard stem above the bulb or emerge from a softer pseudostem
made up of overlapping leaf sheaths. The bulb is covered with membranous skin and encloses up to 20 edible bulblets called cloves. The spherical flower cluster is initially enclosed in a pair of papery
tapered bracts; the bracts split open when the green-white or
pinkish flowers bloom. Flower
stalks sometimes arise bearing tiny bulbils (tiny secondary bulbs that form in place of flowers) and sterile blossoms. Garlic is usually grown as an annualcrop and is propagated by planting cloves or top bulbils, though seeds can be also be used.