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Chives, scientific name Allium schoenoprasum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae that produces edible leaves and flowers. [3] A perennial plant, A. schoenoprasum is widespread in nature across much of Eurasia and North America. It is the only species of Allium native to both the New and the Old Worlds.
Allium is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants with hundreds of species, including the cultivated onion, garlic, scallion, shallot, leek, and chives. It is one of about 57 genera of flowering plants with more than 500 species. [4] It is by far the largest genus in the Amaryllidaceae, and also in the Alliaceae in classification systems ...
Allium tricoccum with open inflorescence bud (June 6). Allium tricoccum is a perennial growing from an ovoid-conical shaped bulb that is 2–6 cm (1–2 in) long. [4] Plants typically produce a cluster of 2–6 bulbs that give rise to broad, [5] flat, smooth, light green leaves, that are 20–30 cm (8–12 in) long including the narrow petioles, [4] often with deep purple or burgundy tints on ...
Allium senescens. Allium senescens, commonly called aging chive, [4] German garlic, or broadleaf chives, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the genus Allium (which includes all the ornamental and culinary onions and garlic).
Kalabotis canadensis (L.) Raf. Allium canadense, the Canada onion, Canadian garlic, wild garlic, meadow garlic and wild onion[6] is a perennial plant native to eastern North America [a] from Texas to Florida to New Brunswick to Montana. The species is also cultivated in other regions as an ornamental and as a garden culinary herb. [7]
The onion plant (Allium cepa), also known as the bulb onion [ 6 ] or common onion, [ 3 ]: 9–10 is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.[ 7 ][ 8 ] It was first officially described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 work Species Plantarum. [ 9 ] A number of synonyms have appeared in its taxonomic history:
Nothoscordum sulvia (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Kunth. Allium tuberosum (garlic chives, Oriental garlic, Asian chives, Chinese chives, Chinese leek) is a species of plant native to the Chinese province of Shanxi, and cultivated and naturalized elsewhere in Asia and around the world. [1][4][5][6] It has a number of uses in Asian cuisine.
Allium fistulosum, the Welsh onion, also commonly called bunching onion, long green onion, Japanese bunching onion, and spring onion, is a species of perennial plant, often considered to be a kind of scallion. The species is very similar in taste and odor to the related common onion, Allium cepa, and hybrids between the two (tree onions) exist.