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Shallot plant (A. cepa var. aggregatum) growing in Castelltallat, Spain Whole shallot plants consist of roots, bulbs, leaves, stalks, and flowers. Shallot seeds. Like garlic, shallots are formed in clusters of offsets with a head composed of multiple cloves. The skin colour of shallots can vary from golden brown to gray to rose red, and their ...
Allium stipitatum, Persian shallot, [4] is an Asian species of onion native to central and southwestern Asia. Some sources regard Allium stipitatum and A. hirtifolium as the same species, [ 3 ] while others treat A. stipitatum and A. hirtifolium as distinct. [ 5 ]
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 , and chives . The genus contains several other species variously called onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion Allium fistulosum , the tree onion Allium ...
Allium oschaninii, the French gray shallot, griselle or true shallot, is a perennial plant of the onion genus Allium. [2] It forms underground bulbs much like the (French red) shallots, covered by a layer of pale brown-grey skin (hence the common name). [3] It is native to Northeastern Iran and Central Asia. [4]
Allium ascalonicum L. – shallot; Allium aschersonianum Barbey; Allium asclepiadeum Bornm. Allium asirense B.Mathew; Allium asperiflorum Miscz. ex Grossh. Allium assadii Seisums; Allium atropurpureum Waldst. & Kit. – purple-flowered onion; Allium atrorubens S.Watson – dark red onion; Allium atrosanguineum Schrenk; Allium atroviolaceum ...
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] The decision to include a species in the genus Allium is taxonomically difficult, and species boundaries are unclear. Estimates of the number of species are as low as 260, [12] and as high as ...
Abies ← [a] Abronia ← Acacia ← Acanthus ← Actinidia ← Actinotus ← Aerangis ← Aeranthes ← Aerides ← Aeschynanthus ← Agalmyla ← Agastache ← Agrostemma ← Aichryson ← Alloplectus ← Alopecurus ← Alphitonia ← Ammocharis ← Ammophila ← Androstephium ← Anemone ← Angophora ← Antirrhinum ← Aphyllanthes ← Archontophoenix ← Arctostaphylos ← Ardisia ← ...
Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [1] These scientific names have been catalogued in a variety of works, including Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners .