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garlic clove cross-section. Garlic Clove Cross-Section When you slice a garlic clove in half, those concentric rings aren't growth layers like a tree—they're actually individual leaf sheaths that wrapped around each other as the clove developed, kind of like a microscopic onion within an onion. The number and thickness of these rings can tell you how old the garlic is and how it was grown, making each clove's cross-section a sort of flavor fingerprint.

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