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Although leeks and green onions are both in the allium family—along with chives, garlic and shallots—leeks are distinguished by their long, thick, cylindrical stalks, according to Farmer Lee ...
Leeks rarely seem to be the center of attention, and that's a shame. They often come in second or third place, used when other alliums such as onions, shallots, and scallions are unavailable. One ...
The shallot is a cultivar group of the onion. Until 2010, the (French red) shallot was classified as a separate species, Allium ascalonicum . The taxon was synonymized with Allium cepa (the common onion) in 2010, as the difference was too small to justify a separate species.
Some species (such as Welsh onion A. fistulosum and leeks (A. ampeloprasum)) develop thickened leaf-bases rather than forming bulbs as such. Carl Linnaeus first described the genus Allium in 1753. The generic name Allium is the Latin word for garlic, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] and the type species for the genus is Allium sativum which means "cultivated ...
Peronospora destructor is an oomycete plant pathogen that affects the Allium genera, including A. cepa (onions), A. sativum (garlic), A. porrum (leeks), A. schoenoprasum (chives), and A. cepa var. aggregatum (shallots). [4] P. destructor causes a wide range of symptoms in onions. From afar, downy mildew of onions can be detected by patches of ...
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The larvae of the onion leaf miner or leek moth (Acrolepiopsis assectella) sometimes attack the foliage and may burrow down into the bulb. [72] The onion fly (Delia antiqua) lays eggs on the leaves and stems and on the ground close to onion, shallot, leek, and garlic plants. The fly is attracted to the crop by the smell of damaged tissue and is ...
One study found that regularly consuming allium vegetables, including garlic, onion, leeks, chives and scallions, coincided with lower incidences of colorectal cancer.