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Garlic scape

This is the flowering stalk of a garlic plant, something you want to remove from your garden garlics so they can put energy into the underground bulbs. I took this photo to show the unusual curvature of the scape, which, by the way, is very good to eat!

 

 

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Uploaded on July 15, 2008
Taken on June 27, 2008