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An onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onion which was classified as a separate species until 2011.
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Some foods have always been common in every continent, such as many seafood and plants. Examples of these are honey, ants, mussels, crabs and coconuts. Nikolai Vavilov initially identified the centers of origin for eight crop plants, subdividing them further into twelve groups in 1935. [1]
Some are endemic, meaning they occur naturally only in the Americas and nowhere else, while others occur naturally both in the Americas and on other continents as well. When complete, the list below will include all food plants native to the Americas ( genera marked with a dagger † are endemic), regardless of when or where they were first ...
There are dozens of cultivars of the onion (Allium cepa), one of the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium, But there are also other species cultivated as 'onions'. Many are named after the first person to breed them, or the locality they came from.
Allium victorialis, commonly known as victory onion, Alpine leek, and Alpine broad-leaf allium [5] is a broad-leaved Eurasian species of wild onion. It is a perennial of the Amaryllis family that occurs widely in mountainous regions of Europe and parts of Asia ( Caucasus and Himalayas ).
Garlic (Allium sativum) is a species of bulbous flowering plant in the genus Allium. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive, [2] Welsh onion, and Chinese onion. [3] It is native to Central Asia, South Asia and northeastern Iran.
Allium drummondii, also known as Drummond's onion, wild garlic and prairie onion, [citation needed] is a North American species of onion native to the southern Great Plains of North America. It is found in South Dakota , Kansas , Nebraska , Colorado , Oklahoma , Arkansas , Texas , New Mexico , and northeastern Mexico .