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Allium neapolitanum (white garlic)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Allium neapolitanum (Neapolitan Garlic, Naples Garlic, Daffodil Garlic, False Garlic, Flowering Onion, Naples Onion, Guernsey Star-of-Bethlehem, Star, White Garlic, Wood Garlic) is a perennial bulbous plant in the onion subfamily within the Amaryllis family. Allium neapolitanum is cultivated by gardeners for its ornamental value. It produces round bulbs up to 2 cm across. Scape is up to 25 cm tall, round in cross-section but sometimes has wings toward the bottom. Inflorescence is an umbel of up to 25 white flowers with yellow anthers.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  Although no individual reports regarding this species have been seen, there have been cases of poisoning caused by the consumption, in large quantities and by some mammals, of certain members of this genus. Dogs seem to be particularly susceptible;
Leaf Type [3]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Insects, Lepidoptera
Scent [2]  In sunny weather the flowers develop a sweet scent.
Structure [2]  Bulb
Usage [2]  The juice of the plant is used as a moth repellent. The whole plant is said to repel insects and moles;
Height [2]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Width [2]  3.937 inches (0.1 m)
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Protected Areas

Predators

Neotoxoptera formosana (Onion aphid)[4]

Providers

Pollinated by 
Andrena humilis[4]
Apis mellifera (honey bee)[4]
Pseudapis diversipes[4]

Citations

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1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
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.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0