Garlic is found at the highest mountain in Quang Ngai

Roasted garlic, a new species has been discovered by scientists and named after the site of the highest mountain in Quang Ngai province.

The new garlic has the scientific name Aspidistra cadamensis NS Ly & Tillich , discovered at the highest Ca Dam mountain in Quang Ngai province.

Garlic garlic tree.(Photo: VAST).

Flowers of Aspidistra cadamensis NS Ly & Tillich.(Photo: VAST).

According to the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), roasted garlic is a multi-year-old grass root up to 80cm tall, without branching. Their flower vases are small bell-shaped, white or white cream exterior with purple spots on the first half of the vase. The pistil set has an inverted cone, 6-7mm in diameter, and three lobes hugging tightly.

The new species grows into populations under the canopy of broad-leaved forest on Ca Dam mountain, in the two districts of Tay Tra and Tra Bong (Quang Ngai), at an altitude of 800 m to over 1,000 m. This species is endemic to the flora of Vietnam.

The research results are a collaboration of the Institute of Tropical Biology (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology), Ludwig-Maximilians General University (Germany).