What are some common varieties of clove in the market?
- White Clove
This type of Clove's leaves is light green (yellowish) with relatively larger leaf strands. It can grow up to 2-meters tall. When the flowers are ripe light green/white, the flower stalk is rather long, flowering ages 6-8 years. The production and quality of the flowers are relatively low.
- Kotok Clove
The leaves’ color is initially the next yellowish-green to the dark green, the surface is shiny and smooth, the shape of the leaf’s tip is slightly rounded and slender, the first branch remains alive. Hence, the title appears to be low from the ground, cylindrical head shape, or pyramid. Its growth is positively affected by the altitude of the regions where it is planted.
- Ambon Clove
Plant heads tend to be round with the blunt upper part tend to be tapered, branching at the height of 1.5 - 2 m from the ground due to the death of the main branches, leaf with a width of 2/3 times the length. The flower branches are relatively few, with less than 15 bunches. This clove has a low productivity rate and low adaptability.
- Zanzibar Clove
Zanzibar varieties have elliptical leaves with a length of 8.18±0.78 cm, a width of 3.38±0.52, leaf area of 23.30±4.30 cm2. The old leaf has a deep yellowish-green/green, shoot color moderate red/grayed red. The flower bud is a round-shaped funnel, length 1.87±0.11 cm, width 0.50±0.01, color strong pink/red. Fruit and seeds are conical. The fruit has a length of 2.24±0.09 cm, a width of 1.36±0.05 cm, the color of dark purple/purple. Seeds have a length of 1.55±0.05 cm, a diameter of 0.81±0.02 cm, a light purple/purple.
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