{"id":71931,"key":"Cloves","title":"Cloves","latest":{"id":1205579,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T15:51:05Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Clovespile.png|thumb]]\n\n'''Cloves''' are a spice derived from the highly aromatic buds of an evergreen tree in the family Myrtaceae, ''Syzygium aromaticum''.<ref name=\"WP\" >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clove</ref>\n\nCloves are grown and harvested in many countries with tropical zones, especially Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Madagascar, Zanzibar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tanzania.<ref name=\"WP\" /> Many of these trees grow near seashores.\n\n''' Uses for cloves '''\n\nCloves have many culinary uses as an aromatic flavouring.\n\nCloves also have medicinal uses, such as for chewing on to alleviate a toothache.\n\nCloves have long been used in scented items such as pomanders, potpourri and fragrances.\n\n== Sources and citations ==\n\n<references />\n\n* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clove\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:Spices]]"}