Bulb gets bigger and full of seeds, smells like garlic

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  1. stacigardenwanter

    stacigardenwanter New Seed

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    :?: The bulb gets bigger and full of seeds, kinda smells like garlic.
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  3. glendann

    glendann Official Garden Angel

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    It sure looks like garlic to me.
     
  4. Netty

    Netty Chaotic Gardener Plants Contributor

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    Me too!
     
  5. eileen

    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    I have to agree. It looks very like garlic to my old eyes too!! :-D
     



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  6. CritterPainter

    CritterPainter Awed by Nature

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    yup, I'd vote garlic too, but better make sure before you eat it!
     
  7. Palustris

    Palustris Young Pine

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    If it is one of the Allium family and it certainly loks and sounds like one, then even if it is not garlic it is edible. They might be very strongly flavoured, but they wont kill you.
     
  8. bsewnsew

    bsewnsew Hardy Maple

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    garlic

    I am on garlic side......tee hee
    Now you could lift one and see if the bottom is divided into different sections......If so .. Your a garlic owner.........;o)

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