Cloves are a aromatic flower buds of a tree in the vintage Myrtaceae, Syzygium aromaticum. They are native to the Maluku Islands or Moluccas in Indonesia, & are usually used as a spice, flavoring or fragrance in consumer products, such(a) as toothpaste, soaps, or cosmetics. Cloves are available throughout the year owing to different harvest seasons across various countries.
Clove stalks are slender stems of the inflorescence axis that show opposite decussate branching. Externally, they are brownish, rough, together with irregularly wrinkled longitudinally with short fracture and dry, woody texture. Mother cloves anthophylli are the ripe fruits of cloves that are ovoid, brown berries, unilocular and one-seeded. Blown cloves are expanded flowers from which both corollae and stamens create been detached. Exhausted cloves name almost or all the oil removed by distillation. They yield no oil and are darker in color.