Anyone know what this is!

 


These are growing up all over our garden. The bulb smells a bit like
garlic,
but the flower are wrong. Long stem, no leaves at all. just a
long stem, with
the flower? at the top.


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Suebdo

 

On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:41:45 +0000, Suebdo


It is an allium of some sort - the garlic and onion family of which
you are likely familiar. The bulb and flower head are perfect fits.
The specific allium is trickier to pin without knowing size or seeing
the flower in full bloom.

Some alliums are grown purely for decoration, and not for eating,
though. It encompasses quite a large groups of plants.

Do a quick google search on images for the word "allium" and you will
see a large variety of them and perhaps better be able to spot what is
in your garden.

Boron

 

Boron Elgar wrote:

Agreed, it is definitely an allium.  No leaves, huh?  Between that fact
and the appearance of the flower head, it looks like a mixed-up chive.

Tony M.

 



 Perhaps Walking Egyptian onion on the immature side.

--
Bill  S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
     What use one more wake up call?  

 

Agree it is an Allium, and apomictic:  it has seedlings (bulbils)
growing out of its flowers.

A number of cultivated species in the onion genus Allium do this.
A common one is "pregnant onion", one or more varieties of Allium
cepa, the common onion.  Possibly this is the same as Bill's
"walking Egyptian onion", but that name can refer to another
species, Allium proliferum, which may itself be a cross between
A. cepa and A. fistulosum.

("Pregnant onion" can also refer to Ornithogalum longebracteatum,
which is no kind of onion.)

    Una