Allium tuberosum, commonly called garlic chives, is a clump-forming onion family member which may be grown for both culinary and ornamental purposes. Features chive-like, gray-green leaves up to 12″ long which may be used in cooking in the same manner as chives. Tiny, star-shaped, white flowers with brown striped tepals appear in loose clusters atop leafless 9-18″ stems in late summer into fall. Plants will colonize, and a small planting can expand quickly. All parts of the plant have an oniony smell when cut or crushed, however the flower scent is more suggestive of violets. Also commonly called Chinese Chives or Chinese Garlic Chives because the plant is grown extensively in China for culinary purposes.
If you’re looking for an easy to grow delicious edible garden perennial herb try Allium tuberosum.
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Thanks for this video, I have all of them in my garden.
thank you!