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Allium flavum (yellow) and Allium carinatum (purple). Allium is a large genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants with around 1000 accepted species, [4] [5] making Allium the largest genus in the family Amaryllidaceae and amongst the largest plant genera in the world. [6]
The potato onion (also known as an Egyptian onion, underground onion [1] or multiplier onion) [2] is a group of varieties [3] which Maud Grieve calls Allium × proliferum [1] but has also been classed in the Aggregatum Group of Allium cepa, similar to the shallot. [3]
He placed Allium in a grouping he referred to as Hexandria monogynia (i.e. six stamens and one pistil) [9] containing 51 genera in all. [10] In 1763, Michel Adanson, who proposed the concept of families of plants, included Allium and related genera as a grouping within Liliaceae [11] as Section IV, Les Oignons (Onions), or Cepae in Latin. [12]
any uncultivated species in the genus Allium, especially: Allium bisceptrum; Allium canadense; Allium tricoccum; Allium validum; Allium vineale; Allium ochotense; Asphodelus tenuifolius; Cyperus bulbosus; Bulbine semibarbata
Allium is a genus with around 1000 species, making it one of the largest plant genera in the world. [1] [2 The ...
White Rot (Sclerotium cepivorum) (also known as Allium Root Rot) is a notorious and severe fungal disease which impacts most members of the allium family, including garlic, leeks and onion varieties. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The fungus is unique in that it does not produce spores of great significance in its lifetime.
Allium crenulatum, common name Olympic onion, [4] is a plant species native to Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. It grows in the Cascades , the Coast Ranges , the Olympic Mountains , the Wenatchee Mountains , and the mountains on Vancouver Island . [ 5 ]
Red onions (also known as purple or bluehi onions in some mainland European countries) are cultivars of the onion (Allium cepa), and have purplish-red skin and white flesh tinged with red. They are most commonly used in cooking, but the skin has also been used as a dye. [1]