Allium amethystinum
| Round-headed leek Aglio ametistino | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Tribe: | Allieae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Species: | A. amethystinum |
| Binomial name | |
| Allium amethystinum Tausch | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Allium amethystinum is a plant species native to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Sicily, Crete, Malta, Albania, Bulgaria, and the former Yugoslavia, and cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental.[2] It is one of several species that horticulturalists refer to as "drumstick onions" because of the tight spherical "knob" of flowers at the top, resembling a drumstick.[3][4]
Allium amethystinum has a single bulb. Leaves are tubular, withering before flowering time. Flowers are reddish-purple, the tepals barely opening at flowering time, remaining wrapped around the ovary and filaments so that only the anthers and stigma are exposed.[5][6]
References
- ↑ The Plant List
- ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Altervista, Schede di Botanica, Allium amethystinum
- ↑ Pacific Bulb Society, Milwaukie, Oregon USA. Drumstick onions
- ↑ Ignaz Friedrich Tausch. 1828. Syll. Ratlb. ii. 256.
- ↑ Malta Wild Plants, Round-headed leek
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