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The red onion from Tropea, Italy, (Italian: "Cipolla Rossa di Tropea") grows in a small area of Calabria in southern Italy, Capo Vaticano, near the city of Tropea. [6] This onion has a stronger and sweeter aroma and the inner part is juicier and whiter than other red onions and it is possible to make a jam with it.
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 garlic". [11]
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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. The onion's close relatives include garlic, scallion, leek ...
Garlic may also suffer from pink root, a typically non-fatal disease that stunts the roots and turns them pink or red; [26] or leek rust, which usually appears as bright orange spots. [27] The larvae of the leek moth attack garlic by mining into the leaves or bulbs. [28] Botrytis neck and bulb rot is a disease of onion, garlic, leek and shallot.
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.
A late summer- to autumn-blooming plant, [6] A. tuberosum is one of several Allium species known as wild onion and/or wild garlic that, in various parts of the world, such as Australia, are listed as noxious weeds or as invasive "serious high impact environmental and/or agricultural weeds that spread rapidly and often create monocultures".
Leeks were eaten in ancient Rome and regarded as superior to garlic and onions. [22] The 1st century CE cookbook Apicius contains four recipes involving leeks. [ 22 ] Raw leek was the favorite vegetable of the Emperor Nero , who consumed it in soup or oil, believing it beneficial to the quality of his voice. [ 23 ]