Tulbaghia acutiloba
Harv.
Wild garlic
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Plant, Bulb, Leaves, Rhizome, Root, Flower
Young plants are cooked as a vegetable. They are also used for flavouring and as a preservative.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant.
Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa, Southern Africa*, Swaziland, Zambia,
Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
How to Identify
A subtropical herb of the amaryllis family, related to onions, with edible bulbs, leaves, rhizomes, roots, and flowers.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Tulbaghia acutiloba, one of many plants named wild garlic, is a species of plant in the Allioideae subfamily of the Amaryllidaceae family. First described by William Henry Harvey in 1854, it is found in the countries of Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, and South Africa.
Notes
Also put in the families Alliaceae and Liliaceae.
Names & Synonyms
Lisela, Liselwa, Safothofotho
References (8)
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