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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 ...
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 ...
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]
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
The name Allium is ancient, and the plant was known to both the Romans and the Greeks. [51] The name is thought to be Celtic in origin, meaning "to burn", in reference to its taste and smell. [ 52 ] One of the earliest uses of the name in botany was by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708).
This is a list of terms and symbols used in scientific names for organisms, and in describing the names. For proper parts of the names themselves, see List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names. Note that many of the abbreviations are used with or without a stop.