What is Chinese Leek-Chinese Chives and its quotes,modern research.

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Botanical Description and Info:Chinese Leek-Oriental garlic chives.

Oriental garlic chives Extract Chinese Leek Chinese Chives Allium tuberosum Rottler garlic chives Oriental garlic chives photo picture image Garlic chives, also known as Chinese chives, Chinese leek, Ku chai or Nira is a relatively new vegetable in the English-speaking world. The plant has a distinctive growth habit with strap-shaped leaves unlike either onion or garlic and straight thin white-flowering stalks that are much taller than the leaves. For the parody newspaper, see The Onion. ... Garlic (Allium sativum) is a bulbous perennial food plant of the family Alliaceae...

 It grows in slowly expanding perennial clumps, but also readily sprouts from seed. It is not only an interesting vegetable, but a very attractive flower. The cultivated form is Allium tuberosum while the wild form is placed as A. ramosum. Older references list it as A. odorum but that is now considered a synonym of A. ramosum. Some botanists would place both wild and cultivated forms in A. ramosum since many intermediate forms exist.

 Species See List of Allium species Allium is the onion genus with about 1250 species, mostly classified in its own family Alliaceae...
 Oriental garlic chives Extract Chinese Leek Chinese Chives Allium tuberosum Rottler garlic chives Oriental garlic chives photo picture image

 The flavor of garlic chives is rather more like garlic than chives, though much milder. Both leaves and the stalks of the flowers are used as a flavoring similarly to chives, green onions or garlic and are used as a stir fry ingredient. In China, they are often blanched by covering them in the spring. The flowers may also be used as a spice. Binomial name Allium schoenoprasum Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) are a member of the onion family (Alliaceae) grown for their leaves, which are used as an herb. ... Stir frying is a common Chinese cooking technique used because of its fast cooking speed...The Great Wall of China, stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the 3rd century BC to guard the north from raids by men on horses...External links Wikibooks Cookbook has more about this subject: Spice Food Bacteria-Spice Survey Shows Why Some Cultures Like It Hot Citat: ...Garlic, onion, allspice and oregano, for example, were found to be the best all-around bacteria killers (they kill everything)...

 Many garden centers carry it (usually unaware of its culinary uses) as do most oriental specialty groceries if they have fresh produce at all.

 Origin:Unknown, maybe Central Asia. Today, the plants grows practially everywhere in Europe, even at high altitude.

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