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Single-Clove Garlic (Allium cepa or Allium sativum) bought at local shop, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Photographed on 4 September 2011. This is a variety of Garlic native to China. There is some question over which species this actually belongs to - see comment below. Also see comments under
Allium sativum,
Allium cepa and
Allium ampeloprasum on the Encyclopedia of Life (
www.eol.org).
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Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, September 2010
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Padang Lembu, Kedah, Malaysia.
Allium tuberosum Rottler ex Spreng. Amaryllidaceae, also placed in: Alliaceae, Liliaceae. CN: [Malay - Kucai], Chinese chives, Chinese leek, Garlic chives, Oriental garlic. Native of China; elsewhere cultivated. Food flavoring and vegetable, ornamental and folk medicine. Perennial herb forming dense clumps ca 20-40 cm tall; spreading rhizomes, bulb indistinct, narrowly ovoid ca 15-20 mm x 15 mm. Leaves distichious, linear ca 13-45 cm x 2-10 mm, flat above, slightly keeled below. Inflorescence umbellate, many flowered, white, widely opened, star-like, fragrant. Fruit obovoid ca 5-6 mm long and wide. Seed irregularly depressed, spherical ca 3-4 mm long, black.Synonym(s):
Allium clarkei Hook. f.Ref and suggested reading:
www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?2409www.globinmed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=a...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic_chives
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Botanisk Have Århus
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Hwy 23 E of Boonesville, Logan County, Arkansas, US
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Hb. FH 20XX/YYY - Herbarium Falkner Hermann (20XX/No YYY) (DIN AX)leg.: Falkner Hermann, 20XX-YY-ZZ: Niedersterreich, Bezirk XYZ - LOCATION: 180 msm Quadrant 7964/4.det.: Falkner Hermann, nach Fischer & al., Exkursionsflora A/FL/SdT (2008 3. A.)Dt: NAME; English: NAMESynonyme: NAMENSchenkung an Herbarum WU - donated to Herbarium WU (Universitt Wien, Institut fr Botanik, Wien III., Rennweg) 2012-01-11.152 msm Quadrant 7864/2
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2011-02-09 Lower Austria, district Schwechat Rannersdorf (Schwechat river alluvial forest, 163 m AMSL).The first shoots of this year - not yet quite enough to harvest some: they're in high demand as (wild) vegetable, soon they'll be growing in great numbers in alluvial forests.German name: Br-Lauch
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Allium roseum L. Rosy Garlic, DE: Rosen-LauchSlo.: ronati lukDat.: April 24. 2011Lat.: 45.52482 Long.: 13.58263Code: Bot_508/2011_IMG4513Habitat: close to Adriatic Sea shore; bushy, semiruderal ground on the shore of a small lake, flat terrain, cretaceous clastic rock (flysh) bedrock; moist place; exposed to direct rain; elevation 5 m (16 feet); average precipitations 1.000-1.100 mm/year, average temperature 12-14 deg C, submediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: Near Adriatic Sea coast, on the Shore of Fiesa Lake, Fiesa bay near town Piran, Primorska, Slovenia EC. Comment: We all know onions and garlic (genus Allium) from our kitchens. But few know how these plants bloom and whether or how many brothers and sisters they have in their botanical genus. In Slovenia we have 25 different species of this genus growing in wild. Flowers of almost all of them are beautiful. Allium roseum is not an exception. It is a common Mediterranean plant growing all around the Mediterranean Sea, but it is quite rare in my country growing exclusively in extreme southwest part of the state near Adriatic Sea shore on flysh ground of Istria peninsula. Flowers of the inflorescence of Allium roseum are arranged in a half-spherical umbel (inflorescence with the pedicels arising +/- from a common point, like the struts of an umbrella), which can have up to 7 cm in diameter and may contain up to 35 tenderly pink or sometimes almost white individual flowers. In many cases also some bulbils are intermixed in the head. Ref.:(1) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 485.(2) I. Schnfelder, P. Schnfelder, Kosmos Atlas Mittelmeer- und Kanarenflora, Kosmos, (2002), p 54.(3) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 743. (4) N. Jogan (ed.), Gradivo za Atlas flore Slovenije (Materials for the Atlas of Flora of Slovenia), CKSF (2001), p 30.
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Allium ampeloprasum L.Broadleaf Wild Leek, Wild Leek, DE: SommerlauchSlo.: poletni lukDat.: June 14. 2008Lat.: 45.81350 Long.: 13.62329Code: Bot_271/2008_DSC9567Habitat: grassland, skeletal karst ground, calcareous bedrock; open, sunny, warm, dry place; elevation 70 m (230 feet); average precipitations 1.500-1.600 mm/year, average temperature 12-13 deg C, submediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: Karst region, next and north of the road from Italy - Slovenia state border crossing Klarii to village Brestovica na Krasu, close to the village, Goriko, Slovenia EC. Comment: Genus Allium in Europe includes well over 100 species (Ref.:5), 25 species and subspecies can be found in Slovenia. All plants in this genus have quite similar habit and they have the same characteristic smell on onion or garlic. Most of them are edible. Their determination to species level is not always simple due to the fact that specific traits of leaves and flowers are important. Unfortunately, with most of the species the leaves are already weathered away when the plants bloom. One can almost never see leaves and flowers at the same time. Consequently, most of traditional dichotomous keys are hardly usable. The best books (like Ref.:6) provide two keys, one based on leaves only properties and another one based on flower properties.Allium ampeloprasum is a Mediterranean floral element relatively seldom found in Slovenia. It is restricted to the warmest parts of the country near Adriatic Sea. Its beautiful round inflorescence may have up to 9 cm in diameter and contain up to 500 individual flowers. The cultivated leek is believed to be derived from this species.Ref.:(1) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 743. (2) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 487(3) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 1066.(4) R. Domac, Flora Hrvatske (Flora of Croatia) (in Croatian), kolska Knjiga, Zagreb (1994), p 393.(5) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 1061.
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image of stem, showing bloom and bulbhead, of Allium canadense WILD ONION at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve
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Ontario, Canada
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close up image of bloom head just prior to blooming, emphasizing the nood, of Allium cernuum NODDING WILD ONION at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve
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Botanisk Have Århus
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Hwy 23 E of Boonesville, Logan County, Arkansas, US
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Allium angulosumSlo.: robati lukDate: June 10. 2009Lat.: 45.70393 Long.: 14.22681Code: Bot_352/2009-9752Habitat: Bottom of an intermitted Karst lake in dry state, grassland, full sun, precipitations 1.600-1.800 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 530 m (1.700 feet), Dinaric phytogeographical region.Place: Petelinje lake, northeast of Pivka, Notranjska, Slovenia ECComment: Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by "V" representing a vulnerable species.
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Chilly, Champagne-Ardenne, France
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Gibraltar, Gibraltar
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Allium ampeloprasum L.Broadleaf Wild Leek, Wild Leek, DE: SommerlauchSlo.: poletni lukDat.: June 14. 2008Lat.: 45.81350 Long.: 13.62329Code: Bot_271/2008_DSC9567Habitat: grassland, skeletal karst ground, calcareous bedrock; open, sunny, warm, dry place; elevation 70 m (230 feet); average precipitations 1.500-1.600 mm/year, average temperature 12-13 deg C, submediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: Karst region, next and north of the road from Italy - Slovenia state border crossing Klarii to village Brestovica na Krasu, close to the village, Goriko, Slovenia EC. Comment: Genus Allium in Europe includes well over 100 species (Ref.:5), 25 species and subspecies can be found in Slovenia. All plants in this genus have quite similar habit and they have the same characteristic smell on onion or garlic. Most of them are edible. Their determination to species level is not always simple due to the fact that specific traits of leaves and flowers are important. Unfortunately, with most of the species the leaves are already weathered away when the plants bloom. One can almost never see leaves and flowers at the same time. Consequently, most of traditional dichotomous keys are hardly usable. The best books (like Ref.:6) provide two keys, one based on leaves only properties and another one based on flower properties.Allium ampeloprasum is a Mediterranean floral element relatively seldom found in Slovenia. It is restricted to the warmest parts of the country near Adriatic Sea. Its beautiful round inflorescence may have up to 9 cm in diameter and contain up to 500 individual flowers. The cultivated leek is believed to be derived from this species.Ref.:(1) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 743. (2) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 487(3) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 1066.(4) R. Domac, Flora Hrvatske (Flora of Croatia) (in Croatian), kolska Knjiga, Zagreb (1994), p 393.(5) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 1061.