Black garlic

Allium nigrum

"Allium nigrum" is a Middle Eastern species of wild onion. It lacks the onion or garlic scent shared by most of the other species in the group. The species is native to Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel but cultivated as an ornamental in many other places. It has become naturalized in some regions, including parts of the United States.
Black Garlic - Allium nigrum Seen in Late Minoan Armeni cemetery in Crete, Greece. Allium nigrum,Black garlic,Geotagged,Greece,Spring

Appearance

"Allium nigrum" produces asymmetric bulbs up to 5 cm across. Each plant has 3-6 leaves, lanceolate in shape, flat and bent to the side, up to 60 cm long and 2.5 cm across. Later the leaves become reflexed. Scapes are smooth and round in cross-section, 80–100 cm tall. The scape carries a dense umbellate inflorescence with star-like flowers up to 9 mm across; tepals white with a green midevein; anthers purple or yellow. The ovaries are black-green in anthesis, but green when younger or following anthesis.

Naming

The name "nigrum" is derived from the colour of the ovaries.

Uses

The plant is a frequent ornamental in European and North American gardens, having been introduced in the early twentieth century. It is produced in Taean and Seosan in South Korea.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassMonocots
OrderAsparagales
FamilyAmaryllidaceae
GenusAllium
SpeciesA. nigrum
Photographed in
Greece