Allium grayi
Regel
Chinese garlic
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Flowers, Leaves, Root, Bulb, Vegetable, Herb
The bulbs are eaten raw or cooked. The leaves are eaten raw or cooked. The flowers are used raw to flavour salads.
Where to Find It
It grows naturally in low hills all over Japan.
Asia, China, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Russia,
Countries: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bhutan, China, Georgia, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
How to Identify
An Amaryllidaceae family plant native to the low hills of Japan, commercially cultivated as a vegetable.
Other Information
It is a commercially cultivated vegetable.
Notes
There are about 300-700 Allium species. Most species of Allium are edible (Flora of China). All alliums are edible but they may not all be worth eating! They have also been put in the family Alliaceae.
Names & Synonyms
Japanese garlic, No-biru, Sandallae, Tallae
Allium nipponicum Franch. & Sav.
References (9)
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