Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Asparagales > Amaryllidaceae > Allium > Allium cepaAllium cepa (garden onion)Synonyms: Allium angolense; Allium aobanum; Allium ascalonicum condensum; Allium ascalonicum f. rotterianum (homotypic); Allium ascalonicum fertile; Allium ascalonicum rotterianum (homotypic); Allium ascalonicum sterile; Allium ascalonicum var. condensum; Allium ascalonicum var. fertile; Allium ascalonicum var. majus; Allium ascalonicum var. sterile; Allium cepa aggregatum; Allium cepa anglicum; Allium cepa argenteum; Allium cepa bifolium; Allium cepa crinides; Allium cepa flandricum; Allium cepa globosum; Allium cepa hispanicum; Allium cepa jamesii; Allium cepa lisboanum; Allium cepa luteum; Allium cepa multiplicans; Allium cepa portanum; Allium cepa praecox; Allium cepa rosum; Allium cepa sanguineum; Allium cepa solaninum; Allium cepa tripolitanum; Allium cepa var. aggregatum; Allium cepa var. anglicum; Allium cepa var. argenteum; Allium cepa var. ascalonicum; Allium cepa var. bifolium; Allium cepa var. bulbiferum; Allium cepa var. crinides; Allium cepa var. flandricum; Allium cepa var. globosum; Allium cepa var. hispanicum; Allium cepa var. jamesii; Allium cepa var. lisboanum; Allium cepa var. luteum; Allium cepa var. multiplicans; Allium cepa var. portanum; Allium cepa var. praecox; Allium cepa var. roseum; Allium cepa var. rosum; Allium cepa var. sanguineum; Allium cepa var. solaninum; Allium cepa var. tripolitanum; Allium cepa var. viviparum; Allium cepa viviparum; Allium cepaeiforme; Allium cepaeum; Allium commune; Allium cumaria; Allium esculentum; Allium napus (homotypic); Allium nigritanum; Allium pauciflorum (heterotypic); Allium salota; Ascalonicum sativum; Cepa alba; Cepa esculenta (homotypic); Cepa esculenta var. hispanica; Cepa esculenta var. ramosa; Cepa esculenta var. rubra; Cepa pallens; Cepa rubra; Cepa vulgaris; Kepa esculenta (homotypic); Porrum cepa (homotypic) The onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable and is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. This genus also contains several other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion (Allium fistulosum), the tree onion (A. ×proliferum), and the Canada onion (Allium canadense). The name "wild onion" is applied to a number of Allium species, but A. cepa is exclusively known from cultivation. Its ancestral wild original form is not known, although escapes from cultivation have become established in some regions. The onion is most frequently a biennial or a perennial plant, but is usually treated as an annual and harvested in its first growing season. |
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants♦ 6New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ database♦ 7Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 ♦ 8Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19 |
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