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Garlic Chives - Allium tuberosum is a BULB growing to 0.3 m) by 0.3 m .
It is hardy and is not frost tender. It is in flower from late summer, and the seeds ripen in late autumn. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Bees, insects.
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 30cm long which may be used in cooking in the same manner as chives (Allium schoenoprasum). Tiny, star-shaped, white flowers with brown striped tepals appear in loose clusters (umbels to 50mm wide) atop leafless 22cm – 45cm stems in late summer into autumn. Plants will colonize, and a small planting can expand rather 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 because the plant is grown extensively in