What is jiu cai in english?
The species Allium tuberosum Rottler, ex Sprengel is known by the common name Jiu cai in Chinese, mandarin, Chinese, min bei, Chinese, wú, and Chinese, yue.
- Allium tuberosum Rottler, ex Sprengel
Allium tuberosum (garlic chives / Chinese chives) is a species of onion native to southwestern parts of the Chinese province of Shanxi, and cultivated and naturalized elsewhere in Asia from Japan to the Philippines and Thailand. Garlic chives have been cultivated for more than 3 millennia in China. It is cultivated for its edible, garlic-flavoured leaves, young inflorescences and, in some varieties, its fleshy roots.
In English, Jiu cai (Allium tuberosum Rottler, ex Sprengel) is known by Chinese chive, Chinese leek, or Oriental garlic.
- When the monkey can’t reach the ripe banana with his hand, he says it is not sweet.
- —Sudanese proverb