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from Tim Tyler contains these words:

Two of my garlic plants seem to have buds on them.

I've tried eating the buds - they are great stuff - an amazing way to
experience garlic.

One of the buds has dropped - and I doubt the other will go much
further. These things look like minature garlic bulbs - and look
like they may be "intended" to hit the ground without flowering -
interesting for me if so; I didn't know alliums engaged in that
sort of strawberry-style reproduction.

This page calls these things "bulbil"s:

http://www.killerplants.com/weird-plants/20050421.asp

Does anyone else have bulbils on their garlic?

That sounds more like another member of the onion family, oftenn
grown for culinary purposes or in the herb garden, aka walking-onion or
Egyptian onion. Eventually the bulbs at the end of the stem bend down to
earth and root. Slowly, the plant advances across the garden that
way.They don't taste like garlic.

Janet