Back Knoffel Afrikaans ነጭ ሽንኩርት Amharic Allium sativum AN Garleac ANG ثوم Arabic توم ARZ নহৰু Assamese Allium sativum AST Ajusa Aymara Sarımsaq Azerbaijani
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| Allium sativum, known as garlic, from William Woodville, Medical Botany, 1793. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Subgenus: | A. subg. Allium |
| Species: | A. sativum
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| Binomial name | |
| Allium sativum | |
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Synonymy
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Garlic (Allium sativum) is a species of bulbous flowering plant in the genus Allium. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive,[2] Welsh onion, and Chinese onion.[3] It is native to South Asia, Central Asia and northeastern Iran and has long been used as a seasoning worldwide, with a history of several thousand years of human consumption and use.[4][5] It was known to ancient Egyptians and has been used as both a food flavoring and a traditional medicine.[6][7] China produced 73% of the world's supply of garlic in 2021.[8]
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- ^ Block, Eric (2010). Garlic and Other Alliums: The Lore and the Science. Royal Society of Chemistry. pp. 5–6. ISBN 9780854041909.
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