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Leek

EN : Leek (green onions)
FR : Poireau (oignons verts)
ES : Puerro

Leek

The leek is a vegetable belonging, along with the onion and garlic, to the Alliaceae family. Also in this species are two very different vegetables: the elephant garlic and kurrat. Rather than forming a tight bulb like the onion, the leek produces a long cylinder of bundled leaf sheaths which are generally blanched by pushing soil around them.