Dynamite Purple

Dynamite Purple with strong white skins.

Dynamite Purple scape

Dynamite Purple plant

The standard layout for Dynamite Purple cloves

This cultivar may be derived from Rojo de Castro or Rojo del Pais Baza but does seem to have definite differences from these cultivars.

Other Names	None known
International Names	None known
Flavour	Very hot and spicy both raw and cooked.
Storage	Very long to 12 months or more.
Growing location	Tasmania to Northern NSW. South Australia and Southern WA.
Growing requirements	This garlic likes cold to warm winters and hot dry summers. They do not do so well with high humidity. In cooler regions the bulbs tend to be a bit smaller.
Planting and harvest	Mid to late season planting, mid to late harvesting.

Shape	Globe to round shaped, can be slightly lumpy and uneven. Convex base, usually 5-6 cm.
Skin colour and texture	Tight white skins, with a faint pink blush showing through on first harvest.

Number and layout	12-15 cloves usually in two layers. Some of the internal cloves in second leaf skin.
Size and shape	Tall and slender cloves with an angled inner surface. 3 cm tall x 1.5-2 cm wide.
Skin colour and texture	Strongly coloured dark pink to burgundy with purple streaks, or deep purple-red. Often tan at the base and some tan striping through the purple.

Size and shape	Slender and upright, stronger and more substantial as it gets closer to harvest.
Leaves	Narrow and mid green to blue green. 30 to 40° from the pseudostem.
Young plants	Slender and upright.
Matures	Matures slowly, have reasonable time to harvest. Remove scape for good bulb development.
Scape	Classed as weakly bolting, this scape is often quite strong, although is usually only makes and upsidedown U, or just weakly bends. Remove the scape for good bulb development.
Umbel and beak	Small slender umbel with medium to long sometime flattened beak.
Bulbils and flowers	20 to 50 small to medium rice grain or bigger bulbils. Pointy at the top, blunt at the bottom, often white. No flowers.

Australian Garlic