Clove (Flower Bud)

What it is

By botany, the clove belongs in this flower-and-bud category — it is, literally, a dried unopened flower bud of Syzygium aromaticum. To avoid a duplicate, the full entry (description, eugenol chemistry, Maluku/Spice-Islands history, and the Dutch monopoly) lives under Warm Spices above.

Cross-reference. → See Clove under Warm Spices for the complete entry. Filed here only to make the flower-bud botany explicit: cloves and capers are the two flower buds most cooks use without realizing it.

Reference notes

Maintain a single canonical Clove record (under Warm Spices) and surface it in both categories via `botanical_part: flower bud` rather than creating a second entry.