Australian Garlic
Celebrating and understanding our garlic groups and cultivars
Americky Maly
Hardneck - Strongly Bolting
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.
General Information
International name/s: Americky Maly (NGPS PI 540335)
Flavour:
Storage: Medium.
Growing location: Tasmania, but would also be suitable for colder, mountainous parts of Victoria and NSW.
Growing requirements:
Planting and harvest: Late planting and late harvest.
Bulb
Shape: Small to medium bulbs 5.5-6.5 cm, level base.
Skin colour and texture: Coarse off-white skin with patches of glazed purple
Clove
Number and layout: 3-7 in single round.
Size and shape: Three and four-sided, wedge-shaped, and typically 2.5-3.5 cm tall. Elongated clove tip.
Skin colour and texture: Mid brown with dark brown veins and darker brown tones at base. Secondary leaf skin thickly covers cloves and is hard to remove but the cloves themselves are easily peeled.
Plant
Size and shape: Large tall-growing plant.
Leaves:
Young plants:
Matures: Late maturing.
Scape: Strongly bolting with strong solid scape. At peak coil it will cross over the scape producing a 270° turn. The scape should be removed when it starts to straighten, as it will reduce the bulb size by up to 30 per cent if left on.
Umbel and beak: Long umbel and beak.
Bulbils and flowers: Bulbils are medium and numerous, greater than 50, and there are some flowers in the umbel.
Artichoke Group
Silverskin Group
Subtropical Group
Asiatic Group
Creole Group
Middle Eastern Group
Turban Group
- Flinders Island Purple
- Glamour
- Italian Purple
- Monaro Purple
- Ontos Purple
- Shandong
- Tasmanian Purple
- White Crookneck
- Xian