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A leek is a vegetable, a cultivar of Allium ampeloprasum, the broadleaf wild leek (syn. Allium porrum). The edible part of the plant is a bundle of leaf sheaths that is sometimes erroneously called a stem or stalk. The genus Allium also contains the onion, garlic, shallot, scallion, chives, [3] and Chinese onion.
Allium moly, also known as yellow garlic, [4] golden garlic and lily leek, Is a species of flowering plant in the genus Allium, which also includes the flowering and culinary onions and garlic. A bulbous herbaceous perennial from the Mediterranean. [5] [6] It is edible and used as a medicinal and ornamental plant.
Each stem produces an umbel inflorescence of 4–19 flowers during winter and spring. [7] The tepals are 10–18 mm (13 ⁄ 32 – 23 ⁄ 32 in) long and white, but with a "strong green line". [8] Each plant has two or three narrow, linear leaves, each up to 15 cm (6 in) long. [7] The leaves have a distinct onion smell when crushed.
Leeks are called leeks in the States but there are also wild leeks (aka ramps) and a type of allium in Spain called a calçot, which are larger than spring onions but smaller than leeks.
The fleshy stalk is the edible part of the plant, but the leaves are poisonous, Reiners said. Stay safe by eating plants that grocery stores commonly call vegetables. “We know (vegetables) are ...
The fig "fruit" is actually an inverted flower cluster with both the male and female flower parts enclosed inside the base of the inflorescence, corresponding to the peduncle. Ginger root The edible portion is a branched underground compressed stem also referred to as a rhizome. Kohlrabi The edible portion is an enlarged (swollen) hypocotyl. It ...
Allium tricoccum with open inflorescence bud (June 6). Allium tricoccum is a perennial growing from an ovoid-conical shaped bulb that is 2–6 cm (1–2 in) long. [4] Plants typically produce a cluster of 2–6 bulbs that give rise to broad, [5] flat, smooth, light green leaves, that are 20–30 cm (8–12 in) long including the narrow petioles, [4] often with deep purple or burgundy tints on ...
The flowers form an umbel at the top of a leafless stalk. The bulbs vary in size between species, from small (around 2–3 mm in diameter) to rather large (8–10 cm). Some species (such as Welsh onion A. fistulosum and leeks ( A. ampeloprasum )) develop thickened leaf-bases rather than forming bulbs as such.