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Rocambole
(Allium scorodoprasum), a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Liliaceae. The ovate bulb is covered with dense brown scales and has numerous dark violet bulbels. The stem is 40–80 cm high and has short linear leaves measuring 4–10 mm across. The leaves are almost twice as short as the stems. The purple flowers are in an umbellate inflorescence, in which bulbels also develop. Rocambole is found in Western Europe and the European USSR. It grows in meadows, on grassy slopes, and amid shrubbery. The plant is sometimes cultivated for its bulbs and leaves, which are used in food in place of garlic. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | He likes the Bavarian Rocambole garlic, a hardneck variety, grown by an uncle of his in nearby Vernonia, as well as the German Porcelain and purple Italian varieties from Groundwork Organics. Rocambole hardnecks Rocamboles are easily identified by their distinctive flower stalks, called scapes. Nor are the novels of Dumas's successors, of the now all-but forgotten Emile Gaboriau (1835-73), termed in a 1901 edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia as 'the great master of police novels' of which Monsieur Lecoq (1869) is generally reckoned to be the best, and of Ponson du Terrail (1829-71) with his creation Rocambole, detective stories in the modern sense. |
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