Allium amethystinum

Round-headed leek
Aglio ametistino
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species: A. amethystinum
Binomial name
Allium amethystinum
Tausch
Synonyms[1]
  • Allium rollii A.Terracc.
  • Allium segetum Jan ex Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Allium sphaerocephalon subsp. rollii (A.Terracc.) K.Richt.
  • Allium stojanovii Kov.

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

  1. ↑ The Plant List
  2. ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Altervista, Schede di Botanica, Allium amethystinum
  4. ↑ Pacific Bulb Society, Milwaukie, Oregon USA. Drumstick onions
  5. ↑ Ignaz Friedrich Tausch. 1828. Syll. Ratlb. ii. 256.
  6. ↑ Malta Wild Plants, Round-headed leek
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