crow garlic

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crow garlic - pungent Old World wild onion

Allium vineale, false garlic, field garlic, stag's garlic, wild garlic

wild onion - any of various plants of the genus Allium with edible bulbs found growing wild

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On a camping stove, set up on the sand dunes, he cooks a kedgeree of locally-sourced smoked haddock, eggs, barley rice, reed mace, wild leeks, sea beet, crow garlic and laver seaweed.

WEED OUT A REAL BANQUET; IT'S GREAT OUTDOORS; More and more restaurants are using and promoting locally-foraged and fresh natural ingredients on their menus, but Mark Williams is keen to help Scottish families make the very most of nature's bounty

"In some regions of the Black Sea, people use the leaves and bulb of the plant "Ornithogalum sigmoideum" -- called colchicum or "karga sarymsay-y" (crow garlic) by locals -- to make meals while another species of the same plant (Ornithogalum narbonanse) is used to poison dogs by putting it between two halves of a piece of bread in the northeastern province of Artvin," Kandemir continues in his article.