Rojo del Pais Baza

This cultivar falls into the Artichoke Group, Type 2 and shares its evolution with others in this sub-group from Formosan to Taiwanese and Taiwanese Purple. Long time grower Roger Schmitke selected bulbs from this heritage that produced larger bulbs and cloves then other cultivars grown in the 80s and 90s. These went to Queensland’s Gatton Research Station and over a 6 year period they were grown and selected and replanted, selecting only the biggest and best bulbs and cloves. In 1997 Southern Glen named and released. See the Production of Garlic here
This day-length neutral cultivar is a very important cultivar for growers in warmer more northern regions.

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.

Shape: Rounded and globe shaped. Convex base. 4.5 to 6cm across.

Skin colour and texture: Solid, strong but fine white skins.

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

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.

Australian Garlic

General Information

Bulb

Clove

Plant

Artichoke Group

Silverskin Group

Subtropical Group

Asiatic Group

Creole Group

Middle Eastern Group

Turban Group

Glazed Purple Stripe Group

Marbled Purple Stripe Group

Porcelain Group

Rocambole Group

Standard Purple Stripe Group