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Tai Cang (aka Tai Chang)

Variety: Asiatic Harvest Date: Middle
Average Head Weight: 2.0 oz.  

From Ms. Tu Xiaoming of the China National Seed Corporation in Beijing via Greg Czarnecki of Huber Heights, Ohio; SSE 284;

Taia Pink (aka Taia)

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Average Head Weight: 2.1 oz. 2006 Picture

Collected in 1983 from village of Taia, NE of Zugdidi, Megrelien Province, Republic of Georgia. Gatersleben #K 6040; SSE 110

Tajikistan

Variety: Porcelain Harvest Date: Early
Average Head Weight: 0.9 oz.  

From a friend of Brendan Flanagan of Tiller, Oregon who seems to have recalled Brendan giving it to him; SSE 328

Tangsiuina

Variety: Turban Harvest Date: Very Early
Average Head Weight: 1.6 oz.  

From Ron Thuma of Hartford, Kansas; SSE 322

Tashkent Violet Streak (aka Tashkant Violet Streak)

Variety: Turban Harvest Date: Very Early
Average Head Weight: 2.4 oz 2006 Picture

Doug Batey of Wild Plum farm, Dixon, Montana got this in the late 1980's from a friend who bought it at a market in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, via Timothy Pellow and Diane Reuter, Davenport, Washington. SSE 265

Thai Large Red

Variety: Turban Harvest Date: Very Early
Average Head Weight: 1.8 oz.  

From SSE with no provenance; SSE 351

Thermadrone

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Early
Average Head Weight: 1.3 oz 2006 Picture

French variety imported by WJ Hume for commercial testing in California, via David Cavagnaro. SSE 157

Tipitilla (aka Tipatilla)

Variety: Silverskin Harvest Date: Late
Average Head Weight: 1.3 oz. 2006 Picture

An Arizona garlic from Seeds of Change; SSE 121

TLC (aka Californa Late TLC Strain)

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Average Head Weight: 1.9 oz. 2006 Picture

Reselected growers strain of California Early via John Swenson. SSE 23

Tochliavri (aka Tochliaupi, Tochliauri, Red Toch, Russian Red Toch)

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Average Head Weight: 2.0 oz. 2006 Picture

Collected by Dr. Peter Hanelt in 1988 from the village of Tochliavri, Republic of Georgia (population 312 in the late 1990s), via John Swenson. SSE 208

Transylvanian

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Early
Average Head Weight: 2.4 oz. 2006 Picture

Bought in a Transylvanian village by Robin Miller of Brandeis University, via Chester Aaron. SSE 266

Trznice

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Early
Average Head Weight: 0.4 oz. 2006 Picture

From Czech Collection of Dr. Boris Andrst, Port Jefferson, New York, via Filaree Farms. SSE 267

Turkish

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Late
Average Head Weight: 2.4 oz. 2006 Picture

A hardneck garlic of this name was first listed by Paul Aylor of Fillmore, New York in the 1985 SSE Yearbook; this strain was given to his mother by a friend who in turn got it from a Turkish immegrant; the 2006 SSE Yearbook still lists Turkish as a hardneck variety; however, the SSE accession is an artichoke which came from Filaree Farms. SSE 114

Udabmo

Variety: Porcelain? Harvest Date: Middle
Average Head Weight: 1.4 oz. 2006 Picture

This is supposed to be an artichoke variety collected by Dr. Peter Hanelt in 1988 from the village of Udabmo in the Republic of Georgia, via John Swenson; 2006 SSE Yearbook listings are also all for a softneck variety; however the SSE accession is for a marbled purple stripe. SSE 75

Ukanapshavi

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Average Head Weight: 2.0 oz. 2006 Picture

Collected in 1986 by Dr. Peter Hanelt from village of Ukanapshavi in the Republic of Georgia, via John Swenson. SSE 35

Vekak

Variety: Glazed Purple Stripe? Harvest Date: Early
Average Head Weight: 1.7 oz. 2006 Picture

From Czech Collection of Dr. Boris Andrst, Port Jefferson, New York, via Filaree Farms. SSE 269

Verchnyava Mcara (aka Red Czar)

Variety: Purple Stripe Harvest Date: Early
Average Head Weight: 1.3 oz. 2006 Picture

Collected in 1983 from the village of Verchnjaja Mcara, Novyj Afon Province, Republic of Georgia. Gatersleben #K 6017; SSE 127

VF-25

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Early
Average Head Weight: 1.6 oz. 2006 Picture

From the California Virus Free Program via Susan Marsh Mongold of Dyer, Nevada. SSE 270

Vic's

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Average Head Weight: 2.7 oz.  

Given to Joel Girardin of Cannon Falls, MN by Vic Kelsch who got it from someone who brought it from Europe as bubils; SSE 295

Vilnius

Variety: Purple Stripe Harvest Date: Middle
Average Head Weight: 2.0 oz.  

Collected in 1998 from Vilnius, Lithuania market by Cassim Dunn of El Prado, New Mexico

Volpe (aka Oulpe)

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Average Head Weight: 1.7 oz.  

From Ronald Bennett of Victor, NY via John Swenson. While first listed as a softneck, John changed description in 1992 to a hardneck. Blue Ribbon winner of Carlton, Minnesota, County Fair; SSE 285

 
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