|
Allium ampeloprasum
var. porrum
|
||
 Leek
(green onions) |
 Poireau
(oignons verts) |
 Puerro |
| The leek is a vegetable belonging, along with the onion and garlic, to the Alliaceae family. Also in this species are two very different vegetables: the elephant garlic and kurrat. Rather than forming a tight bulb like the onion, the leek produces a long cylinder of bundled leaf sheaths which are generally blanched by pushing soil around them. |
Copyright © 2005-2008 - Bernard Déry. All rights reserved. Reproduction prohibited without permission.