Garlic
ಬೆಳ್ಳುಳ್ಳಿएलियम सैटिवमபூண்டு
Allium sativum L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 38 cm
- wide
- 25 cm
Amaryllidaceae
Also called Cultivated garlic
Formerly Allium controversum, Allium longicuspis, Allium pekinense
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Bulbous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. Asia to NE. IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 20 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Ajo
- root
- ajus, axoxi, ALLSAT
- Indonesian
- Bawang Putih
- French
- Ail, Ail commun, Ail cultivé
- Portuguese
- Alho
- Czech
- česnek kuchyňský
- Estonian
- küüslauk
- Russian
- Лук чеснок
- German
- Knoblauch
- Finnish
- kynsilaukka, valkosipuli
- Japanese
- ニンニク
- Lithuanian
- Valgomasis česnakas
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Allium sativum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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