Australian Garlic
Celebrating and understanding our garlic groups and cultivars
Rojo del Pais Baza
Hardneck - Weakly Bolting
Originally from Cordoba, Spain, imported from the USA in 1994 by the Australian Garlic Industry Association. Loxton Var. No. 41, CSIRO Intro. No. 135562. The NGPS database number is W6 8420.
General Information
International name/s: Rojo del Pais Baza (NGPS database number W6 8420)
Flavour: Hot rich spicey flavour raw and more nutty cooked.
Storage: Very long.
Growing location: NSW, Victoria, SA and Southern WA. Warmer parts of Tasmania.
Growing requirements: Likes cold winters, warm to hot spring and hot summer and not too much humidity.
Planting and harvest: Mid to late season, mid to late harvest. One of the latest in warmer regions, but mid season in Tasmania.
Bulb
Shape: Rounded and globe shaped. Convex base. 4.5 to 6cm across.
Skin colour and texture: Solid, strong but fine white skins.
Clove
Number and layout: 11-14 in one or two layers. Sometimes the internal cloves are enclosed in a second skin with some of the cloves in the outer layer.
Size and shape: Tall and slender with sharply angled inner surface, 3.5 cm tall x 1.5-2 cm wide.
Skin colour and texture: Purple-red to brown, some with cream streaking at the base
Plant
Size and shape: Upright plants with reasonably slender pseudostem.
Leaves: Leaves at only a narrow angle from the stem, blue green to middle green.
Young plants: Slender and upright.
Matures: Leaves may flop from the middle as they get longer.
Scape: Quite strong and thick, needs to be removed to give full bulb size.
Umbel and beak: Fairly small umbels about 2cm across with medium, sometimes flattened beaks.
Bulbils and flowers: No flowers. Small bulbils with purple tips, 8x5mm. Usually 20-30.
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