Allium sativum

BINOMIAL NAME:Allium sativum

                                    SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION:

KINGDOM     :Plantae

CLADE           :Angiosperms

CLADE           :Monocots

ORDER           :Asparagales

FAMILY         :Amaryllidaceae

SUBFAMILY :Allioideae

GENUS           :Allium

SPECIES        :Allium sativum

     Allium sativum is a bulbous plant.  It grows in the wild areas where it has become naturalized.  It grows upto 1.2m (4 feet) in height.  It hardiness USDA zone 8.  It produce hermaphrodite flowers  pollination occurs by bees and other insects.

Wild garlic - Allium ursinum

Crow garlic - Allium vineale

Field garlic - Allium oleraceum

     One of the best known "Garlics", called Elephant garlic, is actually a wild leek (Allium ampeloprasum) not a true garlic.  Single clove garlic(also called pearl or solo garlic) originated in the Yunnan province of China.

     Subspecies and varieties

  There are two subspecies of garlic ten major groups of varieties and hundreds of varieties or cultivars.

1) Allium sativum var.ophioscorodon

2)Allium sativum var.sativum 

     Garlic is easy to grow and can be grown year-round in mild climates.  Garlic is grown globally, but China is by far the largest producer of garlic.

                                                                                               R.AYSVARYA