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Culinary Herbs & Leaves
Chinese Chive
Allium tuberosum
Chinese chive (Allium tuberosum) is a perennial herb that forms dense clumps 20-40 cm tall, creeping outward on a rhizome, its four to nine flat, narrow leaves rising from an indistinct bulb; star-shaped white flowers open in a rounded umbel on a single flattened stalk. It is thought to have come from China, where it was grown by the tenth century, and it is cultivated across eastern Asia and in Indo-China, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. Leaves are cut again and again from the same clumps, sometimes blanched pale in darkness, and both leaves and young flower heads season fried and cooked dishes. Taste and smell are mildly garlicky.
- Origin:
- Vietnam
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