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ALLIUM (Lat. for " garlic ")

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 697 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
ALLIUM (Lat. for " garlic ") , a genus of plants, natural order Liliaceae, with about 250 species (seven of which occur in Britain), found in Central and
South
  Europe, North Africa, the dry country of West and Central
Asia
 , and North and Central America. The plants are bulbous herbs, with flat or rounded radical leaves, and a central naked or leafy
stem
 , bearing a head or umbel of small
flowers
 , with a spreading or bell-shaped white,
pink
 , red, yellow or blue perianth. Several species afford useful foods, such as onion (Allium Cepa),
leek
  (A. Porrum),
shallot
  or eschallot (A. ascalonicum), garlic (A. sativum), and chives (A. schoenoprasum). A few species are cultivated as border plants; such are A. Moly, an old
garden
  plant with
bright
  yellow
flowers
 , and A. neapolitanum, the well-known white-flowered species, both natives of southern Europe.


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