Allium polyanthum, called the many-flowered garlic, is a Mediterranean species of wild onion native to Spain, France, Italy, Morocco, and Tunisia.[2] It is widely cultivated for its edible and potently aromatic bulbs and foliage.[3]

Many-flowered garlic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Subgenus: A. subg. Allium
Species:
A. polyanthum
Binomial name
Allium polyanthum
Synonyms[1][2]
Synonymy
  • Allium ampeloprasum subsp. polyanthum (Schult. & Schult.f.) O.Bolòs & al.
  • Allium multiflorum DC.
  • Allium porrum subsp. polyanthum (Schult. & Schult.f.) Jauzein & J.-M.Tison
  • Allium rotundum var. multiflorum Nyman
  • Allium rotundum var. polyanthum (Schult. & Schult.f.) Asch. & Graebn.

Allium polyanthum produces an egg-shaped bulb, often with small bulblets around the base. Scape can be up to 80 cm tall. Leaves are flat and broadly linear, tapering at the tip. Flowers are numerous and small, white or pink.[4][5][6]

References

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  1. ^ The Plant List
  2. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio con molti fiori, Allium polyanthum
  4. ^ Josef August Schultes & Julius Hermann Schultes. 1830. Systema vegetabilium: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species. Cum characteribus differentiis et synonymis. Editio nova, speciebus inde ab editione XV. Detectis aucta et locupletata. Stuttgardtiae 7(2): 1016.
  5. ^ O.Bolòs & al. 1990. Flora Manual del Països Catalans 1213, Allium ampeloprasum subsp. polyanthum
  6. ^ Jauzein, Philippe & Tison, J.-M. 2005.Lejeunia n.s., 178: 12, Allium porrum subsp. polyanthum