Snow Mountain garlic (also known as ''Allium sativum'' L., ''Allium schoenoprasum'', and Kashmiri garlic), is a subspecies of
garlic which is found in the mountainous in
Jammu and Kashmir. It grows well in the western
Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over 10 ...
at altitudes of up to , in temperatures as low as , and with very little oxygen.
In
Hindi
Hindi ( Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...
, it is known as ''ek pothi lahsun''.
References
Allium
Garlic
Herbs
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