Is this normal garlic?

Hi,

I inherited about 6 of these perennial plants that bud yellow flowers every May-June.

I uprooted a couple today to make room for some other plants and saw these huge bulbs amongst the roots that strongly resemble garlic.

Can anyone confirm if this is garlic and if so, whether it's edible?

Thanks in advance! The picture is attached

 

No, not garlic. I'm not sure what these actually are but I highly doubt that they are edible - more like spring flowering bulbous plants planted for ornamental purposes. The perennial is an Iris, by the way.

 

It's a yellow iris... apparently very poisonous, invasive and toxic on the skin. Thankfully mine hasn't spread in it's 2 years in my garden.

Thanks for the info

 

That your Irises bloom yellow doesn't mean they are Yellow Flag Irises (Iris pseudacorus) Do you have them growing close to a pond? Quite likely they are more common Bearded Irises

The bulbs on the right side of your picture are probably Tulips. Not good for eating.

 

Thanks for the response. It is definitely not a tulip bulb since tulips have never grown there over the past 3 summers.

The flower that blooms resembles the pictures I saw online which led me to that conclusion.

 

Some kind of bulb on the right, one of the thousands of kinds of bearded iris on the left.

 

The bulb is from the same iris plant though. Came up altogether and nothing else grows in that spot except the iris.

 

Two different types of plants in the photograph. Maybe the bulb-growing plant is hidden by the iris foliage.