garlic

[derien]

Is there a type of garlic that actually flowers? I've been reading 'Dracula' (in between reading the Master and Commander books) and Van Helsing brings garlic flowers to put around Lucy's window. Was Stoker just not thinking about that? The garlic we have grows scapes, which are like flower buds, but they never open. They develop tiny kernels, very tiny garlic cloves, which, if you plant then, will take two years to grow into actual garlic. It's in effect like corn (maize); which is also a grass, so I guess that makes sense.

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[tronella.livejournal.com]

Last time I visited my parents, we went for a walk in the fields nearby and my mum made me eat a garlic flower.

[derien.livejournal.com]

So, was it indeed an actual flower, not a cluster of tiny garlic cloves like a flower bud?

[dr-lumieres.livejournal.com]

This is what I think of when garlic flowers are mentioned (little white flowers in clusters at the end of a stalk).

[derien.livejournal.com]

Wow, that doesn't look anything like regular garlic. The leaves don't look like a grass.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Oh, was it the wild garlic Dr_Lumieres linked to, below?

[tronella.livejournal.com]

(Wow, LJ would not let me answer this yesterday!)

I think it was that kind, yeah.