RED GARLIC - The garlic plant has flat leaves and white flowers. Its bulb has many cloves that are papery white. The main part used is the bulb. Variations can be red or white for consumption.
Garlic bulbs can range in size from 1.5 to 3 inches in diameter depending on variety and can have from 4-60 cloves of various shapes and sizes (25, 46, 70). Cloves are enclosed in a white or pink-purple tinged papery membrane and are actually swollen leaves.
