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Morphological characteristics of garlic

Garlic is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Liliaceae family. It is divided into hard-leaf garlic and soft-leaf garlic. The common garlic in my country belongs to the hard-leaf garlic branch. It is usually composed of many fleshy, petal-shaped small bulbs closely arranged, and the outside is covered by several layers of white to purplish membranous bulb skin. Garlic has a chord-shaped shallow root system with no taproot. The main root group is distributed in the soil layer within 5~25cm, with a transverse diameter of 30cm. In terms of plant morphology, the bulb itself develops from abnormal branches, and its internodes are shortened into a "bulb disk". The base and edge of the stem disk have a root system, and the original bodies of leaves and buds grow on it. After the flower buds differentiate, the terminal buds form flower sprouts and the side buds expand to form garlic cloves. The reproduction method of garlic is asexual reproduction, and the reproductive organ is a lateral bud on the mother body, that is, a scale bud. An adult garlic plant consists of roots, pseudostems, leaves, scapes, bulbs, etc.

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