| Round-headed leek Aglio ametistino | |
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| Allium amethystinum 'Red Mohican' | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Subgenus: | A. subg. Allium |
| Species: | A. amethystinum
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| Binomial name | |
| Allium amethystinum | |
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Allium amethystinum is a plant species native to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Sicily, Crete, Malta, Albania, Bulgaria, and the former Yugoslavia, and cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental.[2] It is one of several species that horticulturalists refer to as "drumstick onions" because of the tight spherical "knob" of flowers at the top, resembling a drumstick.[3][4]
Allium amethystinum has a single bulb. Leaves are tubular, withering before flowering time. Flowers are reddish-purple, the tepals barely opening at flowering time, remaining wrapped around the ovary and filaments so that only the anthers and stigma are exposed.[5][6]
References[edit]
- ^ The Plant List
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Altervista, Schede di Botanica, Allium amethystinum
- ^ Pacific Bulb Society, Milwaukie, Oregon USA. Drumstick onions
- ^ Ignaz Friedrich Tausch. 1828. Syll. Ratlb. ii. 256.
- ^ "Malta Wild Plants, Round-headed leek". Archived from the original on 2014-04-17. Retrieved 2014-03-28.