Onions

Allium is a monocot genus o flouerin plants, informally referred tae as the ingan genus. The generic name Allium is the Laitin wird for garlic.^[1] The genus, includin the various edible ingans, garlics, chives, an leeks, haes played a pivotal role in cuikin warldwide, as the various pairts o the plants, aither raw or cuiked in mony ways, produce a lairge variety o flavors an texturs.

Species

See Leet o Allium species for a full leet. Some important species include:

• Allium acuminatum — tapertip ingan, Hooker's ingan
• Allium allegheniense — Appalachian ingan
• Allium ampeloprasum — (broadleaf) wild leek
  • A. ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum — elephant garlic
  • A. ampeloprasum var. kurrat — kurrat
  • A. ampeloprasum var. porrum — leek
• Allium anceps — twinleaf ingan
• Allium angulosum — moose garlic
• Allium aflatunense — flouerin ingan
• Allium atrorubens — dark reid ingan
• Allium caeruleum — blue globe ingan
• Allium campanulatum — dusky ingan
• Allium canadense — Canadian garlic
• Allium cepa — ingan, gairden ingan, bulb ingan, common ingan
• Allium cernuum — noddin ingan
• Allium chinense — Cheenese ingan, Cheenese scallion, Japanese scallion, Oriental ingan
• Allium fistulosum — Welsh ingan
• Allium galanthum
• Allium giganteum — giant ingan
• Allium hollandicum — flouerin ingan
• Allium libani — Lebanese ingan
• Allium neapolitanum — white garlic
• Allium nevii — Nevius' garlic
• Allium nigrum — black garlic
• Allium oleraceum — field garlic
• Allium oschaninii — shallot
• Allium paradoxum — few-flowered garlic
• Allium ramosum — fragrant garlic
• Allium sativum — garlic
• Allium schoenoprasum — chives
• Allium scorodoprasum — saund leek
• Allium siculum — Mediterranean bells, Sicilian honey garlic
• Allium sieberianum — Schult.f.
• Allium stipitatum — Persian shallot
• Allium textile — prairie ingan
• Allium tricoccum — wild leek, ramp
• Allium triquetrum — three-cornered leek, triquetous garlic
• Allium tuncelianum — Tunceli garlic, Ovacik garlic
• Allium tuberosum — Cheenese chives
• Allium ursinum — buckrams, wild garlic, broad-leaved garlic, wid garlic, bear's garlic
• Allium vineale — craw garlic, wild garlic

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