Allium_thunbergii

<i>Allium thunbergii</i>

Allium thunbergii

Species of plant

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Allium thunbergii, Thunberg's chive[2] or Thunberg garlic,[3] is an East Asian species of wild onion native to Japan (incl Bonin + Ryukyu Islands), Korea, and China (incl. Taiwan).[4] It grows at elevations up to 3000 m. The Flora of China recognizes A. tunbergii and A. stenodon as separate species, but more recent sources combine the two.[1][5][6][7][8][9]

Allium thunbergii produces one or two egg-shaped bulbs up to 20 mm in diameter. Scapes are up to 50 cm tall. Leaves are longer than the scape, hollow, triangular in cross-section. Umbels are crowded with many red or purple flowers.[5][6][10][11][12][13][14]

The specific epithet thunbergii references the Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg.[15]

This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[3]

Varieties[4]

References

  1. [1]
    The Plant List
  2. [2]
    Korea National Arboretum (2015). English Names for Korean Native Plants (PDF). Pocheon: National Arboretum. p. 348. ISBN 978-89-97450-98-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2016 – via Korea Forest Service.
  3. [3]
    "Allium thunbergii". Royal Horticultural Society. 2002. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  4. [4]
    Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  5. [5]
    Flora of China v 24 p 197, Allium thunbergii
  6. [6]
    Flora of China v 24 p 179, Allium stenodon
  7. [7]
    Ohwi, J. (1984). Flora of Japan (in English): 1-1067. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
  8. [8]
    Kobayashi, S. & Ono, M. (1987). A Revised List of Vascular Plants Indigenous and Introduced to the Bonin (Ogasawara) and the Volcano (Kazan) Islands. Ogasawara Research 13: 1-55.
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    Choi & Oh 2011.
  10. [10]
    Don, George. 1827. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 6: 84.
  11. [11]
    Nakai, Takenoshin & Kitagawa, Masao. 1934. Report of the First Scientific Expedition to Manchoukou 4(1): 18, pl. 6., as Allium stenodon
  12. [12]
    Liu, Tang Shui & Ying, Shao Shun. 1978. Flora of Taiwan 5: 45
  13. [13]
    P.P.Gritsenko. 1979. Byull. Vses. Ord. Lenina Inst. Rast. N.I. Vavilova 96: 23
  14. [14]
    line drawing of Allium thunbergii, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 24, fig. 221, 1–4
  15. [15]
    Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1845337315.

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