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 10 Garlic Types
 

10 Distinct Garlic Types

In 2003 Gayle Volk, Ph.D. of the USDA/ARS ran DNA analysis on several large collections and determined that we have ten separate types of Garlic. If Botany's your interest, this research is going to answer many questions about the relationships between each garlic and the climate, soil, altitude, cultural, differences across the U.S. in thirteen locations. Each cooperating producer is being asked to make their collection of the garlic types available for public review and access.

 

Type Scape Curl Clove Skin Bulbils Leaf Architecture Leaf Color Clove # Clove Arrangement

Silverskin

 none tight none nearly vertical blue-green 8-24 3-6 layers

Artichoke

 none coarse and thick none or lower stem nearly horizontal yellow-green 12-16 3-6 layers

Rocambole

 1-3 coils easily peeled 10-40, brown, yellow, purple 3-14 single layer

Porcelain

 random tight many tiny white 2-5 single layer

Purple Stripe

 .75 loop easily peeled >50 purple 8-12 single layer

Marble Purple Stripe

 .75 loop easily peeled 20-60 purple 4-7 single layer

Asiatic

 droops tight few, purple 4-8 single layer

Turban

 U downwards coarse and thick 30-100 small purple 7-11 single layer

Creole

 U downwards tight >30 small-medium 4-8 single layer

Glazed Purple Stripe

 (similar to Marble purple stripe, but matures earlier)
 
Engeland, R.L. 1991. Growing great garlic.Filaree Productions. Okanogan, Wash.
Engeland, R.L. 1995. Supplement to the book Growing great garlic. Filaree Productions. Okanogan, Wash.

 
   
 

This project is made possible by Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NE-SARE), the US Department of Agriculture and The Garlic Seed Foundation

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