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Allium fistulosum, the Welsh onion, also commonly called bunching onion, long green onion, Japanese bunching onion, and spring onion, is a species of perennial plant, often considered to be a kind of scallion. The species is very similar in taste and odor to the related common onion, Allium cepa, and hybrids between the two (tree onions) exist.
Here's how to grow onions in your own garden, including growing onions from seed and growing from food scraps, and when to pick them in the spring.
Many are used as food plants, though not all members of the genus are equally flavorful. In most cases, both bulb and leaves are edible. The characteristic Allium flavor depends on the sulfate content of the soil the plant grows in. [15] In the rare occurrence of sulfur-free growth conditions, all Allium species completely lose their usual ...
Allium schubertii, which has various common names including ornamental onion, flowering onion, tumbleweed onion and Persian onion, is a species of monocotyledonous flowering plant. It belongs to the onion and garlic genus , in the subfamily Allioideae of the family Amaryllidaceae .
Allium triquetrum is a bulbous flowering plant in the genus Allium native to the Mediterranean basin. It is known in English as three-cornered leek or three-cornered garlic, in Australia as angled onion, [4] and in New Zealand as onion weed. [5] Both the English name and the specific epithet triquetrum refer to the three-cornered shape of the ...
Allium neapolitanum is a bulbous herbaceous perennial plant in the onion subfamily within the Amaryllis family.Common names include Neapolitan garlic, [2] Naples garlic, daffodil garlic, false garlic, flowering onion, Naples onion, Guernsey star-of-Bethlehem, star, white garlic, and wood garlic.
Garden roses grow at Connolly's Nursery in Evergreen. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake) Michael Connolly, owner of Connolly's Nursery in Evergreen, has been in the horticulture business for over 30 ...
Allium cernuum is a herbaceous perennial growing from an unsheathed elongated conical bulb which gradually tapers directly into several keeled (thin and flat) grass-like leaves, 2–4 millimetres (3 ⁄ 32 – 5 ⁄ 32 inch) in width.