[Allium longicuspis is said to be the wild ancestor of garlic; and according to Vvdensky it is native to central Asia where it extends from mountainous Turkmenia north-eastwards in the Pamir-Alai and Tien Shan regions]
[DeCandolle says that "Thae only country where garlic has been found in a wild state, with the certainty of its really being so, is the desert of the Kirghis of sungari," in the central Asian steppes.]