This Standard Purple Stripe garlic cames originally from Ron Engeland of Filaree Farm wh0 donated it in 1994 to the USA National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) accession collection. It is also listed as having been included in the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research  in Gatersleben, Germany. Garlics from this collection are usually labelled with ALL or K followed by a number. Chesnok Red was originally collected at Shvelisi in the Southern Republic of Georgia in 1985. In the USA it is usually marketed as Chesnok Red. We haven’t found a record for when it was first imported into Australia but it has been available intermittently over the last few years. Bulbils of this cultivar have recently been imported from Canada so it may become more widely available.