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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]
Allium vineale (wild garlic, onion grass, crow garlic or stag's garlic) is a perennial, bulb-forming species of wild onion, native to Europe, northwestern Africa and the Middle East. [2] The species was introduced in Australia and North America , where it has become an Invasive 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 garlic". [11]
After all, there are many different types of alliums out there—Vidalias, white, yellow and red onions, shallots—and even something called a potato onion that looks like a bunch of garlic bulbs ...
Immature garlic is sometimes pulled, rather like a scallion, and sold as "green garlic". [56] When green garlic is allowed to grow past the "scallion" stage, but not permitted to fully mature, it may produce a garlic "round", a bulb like a boiling onion, but not separated into cloves like a mature bulb. [57]
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 ...
Allium tuncelianum is a species of wild onion which is endemic to the Munzur Valley in Tunceli, in eastern Turkey.It usually produces a single-bulb white onion, unlike garlic, which has multiple bulbs. It has a garlic odor and taste and is used locally like garlic. [5] Its common names include Tunceli garlic and Ovacik garlic. [5]
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".