Monster Uni-garlic?

14 years ago

I harvested my Romanian Red garlic two weeks ago and it has been drying outside in the warm weather. One of them caught my eye since it looked rather odd from the rest. The stem seemed soft and the skin leathery instead of papery. It felt a bit moister when I picked up and I immediately suspected fungus or rot. When I peeled back the still moist outside layers I found inside one giant garlic clove. It looked like a naked tulip bulb. Somewhat smaller that then other garlic bulbs, but not very much so:

I though maybe it was harvested too soon and hadn't time to divide properly. I sliced it open and found no evidence of division:

Is this a normal occurrence? I've never seen it before. Is there a name for it? One way or the other, it gets eaten tonight.

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Comments (4)

blueberrier1
14 years ago
WOW! Envious of your monster. Any special treatment of your planting site? Source of seed garlic? Sliced with some goat cheese spread on rye bread should keep any flu-or flu carriers- away for a long time...enjoy. Thanks for sharing.
wcthomas
14 years ago
Normally a garlic that forms one large clove is called a "round", and if planted in the fall it will develop into a normal, multi-clove bulb next year. Yours, however, looks rather large. In any case, since it is already sliced open, enjoy!

TomNJ
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tcstoehr
Original Author
14 years ago
I thought about growing it so I could get a bunch of huge garlic cloves like this. But even if it were to grow true, which it won't, I'd only get one clove in return for planting one clove. Hard to increase numbers that way.
korney19
14 years ago
Romainian Red is also known as Red Elephant Garlic... that may be a standard sized round for elephant types.