EPPO Global Database

Allium sativum(ALLSA)

Overview
Code created in: 1996-10-28

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: ALLSA
  • Preferred name: Allium sativum
  • Authority: Linnaeus

Notes

Central Asia, Western Asia (Iran). Cultivated as a vegetable and flavouring plant since ancient times. Introduced in Euromediterranean region, Russian Far East, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Indochina (Thailand, Cambodia), China, Korea, Ethiopia, USA (a few eastern states), Mexico, Caribbean 


Common names
Name Language
garlic English
Knoblauch German
ail French
ail blanc French
ail commun French
ail cultivé French
ajo Spanish
aglio Italian
aglio comune Italian
knoflook Dutch
alho Portuguese
alho-comum Portuguese
alho-ordinário Portuguese
vitlök Swedish
ninniku Japanese
ニンニク Japanese
лук чеснок Russian
чеснок Russian
hvidløg Danish
hvitløk Norwegian
kynsilaukka Finnish
valkosipuli Finnish
sarımsak Turkish
czosnek pospolity Polish
fokhagyma Hungarian
qepë Albanian
baratxuria Basque
berakatza Basque
чесън Bulgarian
all Catalan
all de cuina Catalan
suàn Chinese
Chinese
češnjak  Croatian
česnek Czech
küüslauk Estonian
lahasun Hindi
लहसुन Hindi
마늘 Korean
ma neul Korean
ķiploks Latvian
česnakai Lithuanian
valgomasis česnakas Lithuanian
alh Occitan
ày Occitan
ai Romanian
cesnak kuchynský Slovak
česen Slovene
часник Ukrainian