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Different localities often use their own common names for cultivars that are genetically almost identical. Sometimes different cultivars are known by the same common name (for example the name 'Chinese chives' could be referring to Allium odorum or Allium tuberosum ).
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.
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] The decision to include a species in the genus Allium is taxonomically difficult, and species boundaries are unclear.
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.
Allium baytopiorum Kollmann & Özhatay – Baytop's onion; Allium beesianum W.W.Sm. Allium bekeczalicum Lazkov; Allium bellulum Prokh. Allium beypazariense Koçyiğit, Özhatay & E.Kaya; Allium bidentatum Fisch. ex Prokh. & Ikonn.-Gal. Allium bigelovii [6] (also A. bigelowii [7]) S.Watson; Allium bilgeae Yıld. Allium bilgilii H.Duman & Eksi ...
This is a list of plants organized by their common names. However, the common names of plants often vary from region to region, which is why most plant encyclopedias refer to plants using their scientific names , in other words using binomials or "Latin" names.
The yellow onion or brown onion (Allium cepa L. [1] [2]) is a variety of dry onion with a strong flavour. They have a greenish-white, [3] light yellow, [4] or white inside; [5] its layers of papery skin have a yellow-brown or pale golden colour.
List of onions may refer to: List of Allium species ; Allium is the onion genus, with 600-920 species, making it one of the largest plant genera in the world List of onion cultivars ; cultivars of the onion ( Allium cepa )