Allium tuberosum

Common name
Bawang kuchai, fragrant- flowered garlic, sweet leek, chinese chives

Characteristics
A perennial herb which forms dense clumps. It is 20-40 cm tall with a prominently spreading rhizome from where thick, long and persistent roots emerge.

Morphology

Leaves
Have 4-9 foliage which are distichous, linear, measuring 13-45 cm x 2-10 mm, flat above, slightly keeled below, not folded lengthwise and suberect or curved. There is 1 peduncle that arises from ground. It is com­pressed, with 2 longitudinal ribs, up to 50 cm long and solid.   

Inflorescence
3-5 cm in diameter, umbellate, many-flowered and without bulbils. The spathe is short, per­sistent and opens with 1-3 valves. The pedicels are 14-35 mm long and subequal.

Flowers 
White, widely opened, star-like and slightly fragrant. The tepals are oblong to ovate and measure 6 mm x 3 mm. The stamens and pistil are up to the length of the tepals.

Fruit 
Obovoid, measures 5-6 mm long and wide.

Seed 
Irregularly depressed spherical, measures 3-4 mm long and black.

List of country
China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Nepal, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and United States.

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