Onion
By Lou Paun
Onions, and close relatives like shallots, leeks, chives, and garlic, are usually grown for their bulbous roots, which are pungent and/or sweet in varying degrees. Some are also grown for their green tops.
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Onion (Allium Cepa)
Was cultivated 6000 years BC in the Nile Valley.The onion contains Na, K, Ca, P, Fe and small quantities of vitamins like A, B1, B2 and C.
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Onions often fail to sprout in heavy soil. This may be made to do so by the following method: ...
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Onions
Planting: Onions are grown either from seed, sets (tiny immature bulbs) or transplants. The different methods vary in the season and area that they are best suited for. Plant seed for bulb onions in the early fall.
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Scientific name: Owenia cepiodora
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
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Onion Soup
A lighter textured and more fluid soup that is used as a flavoring for food dishes or as an ingredient in a variety of different soup-based recipes, such as French Onion Soup. ...
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Here's an ornamental onion that has interesting blue-green foliage with a metallic hue. The strappy leaves, often mottled purple, come in pairs.
Rosy Onion
Related to Onions, Garlic and Leeks, Ornamental Onions are grown for their dense clusters of flowers, which look like lollipops. Height varies from 6 inches to 5 feet. Use for rock gardens, naturalizing and flower borders.
Nodding Onion
Found on ledges, in dry meadows, gravel, rocky or wooded slopes, this delicate onion has gently nodding pink flowers in late spring. Beautiful in the garden or naturalized in a meadow.
Nodding Onion
Allium cernuum Roth
Family: Liliaceae, Lily
Genus: Allium ...
Onions are a hardy biennial grown as annuals. Leaves and flower stalks are hollow and bases swell to form a bulb. Bulbs may vary in color from white, to yellow, or red.
Keep onions weed free! To grow nice, long, white stems for green onions, hill the row by pulling the loose soil toward the onions with a hoe when the tops are 4 inches tall.
Showy Onion
Scientific Name: Allium rosenbachianum Regel
Synonym:
Family: Alliaceae ...
Canary Sea Onion, the Canary counterpart to the Mediterranean Sea Onion (Urginea maritima), makes large bulbs and broad leaves up to 80cm in length. Endemic of rocky spots in full sun on Tenerife only.
Ornamental onion
Allium 'Forelock'
Genus: Allium
Cultivar: 'Forelock' ...
This rare onion is listed as "Threatened" in Georgia and is a candidate for Federal listing.
Guide to Growing Onions
Allium cepa
April 25,1998 Derrick wrote: Thank you for the reply on the letter I sent to you on Feb the 8th on prayer plants this was very useful.
It is a dwarf ornamental onion compared to the giant species in the Melanocrommyum group of alliums, in which it belongs. It grows exceptionally well in our Mediterranean climate, as the plants go dormant by the time our annual drought comes around.
This is the last of the ornamental onions to flower, when mop-like heads of rose-purple flowers appear with orange anthers. The flowers are impervious to frost or snow.
Ornithogalum caudatum, or False Sea Onion, is an interesting bulbous plant native to South Africa. The bulb grows above ground and will reach up to 4 inches (10 cm) in diameter.
There are hundreds of alliums, including the onions and garlic we eat. The ornamental varieties often have leaves similar to onions, as well as the onion's round ball shaped flower heads.
Common Name: Autumn Wild Onion
Latin Name: Allium stellatum
Habitat: Rocky slopes, prairies, shores
Blooms: Summer, early fall ...
The juice made into a syrup is good for colds and coughs. Hollands gin, in which Onions have been macerated, is given as a cure for gravel and dropsy.
Onion
There are hundreds of types of onions, varying in size and form, as well as sweetness/pungency. They are essential ingredients in cuisines across the globe.
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Onions are a cool-weather crop.
Onion
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MEDICINAL: Onion is used externally as an antiseptic. Internally, it can alleviate gas pains, reduce hypertension, and reduce cholesterol.
Onions - Onions seem to be more difficult to raise than formerly. During the past five years I have had the best success by setting onion plants in my garden late in April.
Onion Subfamily
These members of the Lily Family have their petals and sepals at least partially fused together and they have bulbed roots.
Allium spp. Wild Onions.
Allium spp. Wild Onions. Tobacco Root Mountains. Pony, Montana.
Nodding onion (A. cernuum)
White to light pink or rich amethyst flowers are suspended on 60-centimetre-tall stalks that curve at the tips in July and August. Garlic-flavoured, strap-like foliage can be used like garlic chives.
Onion - plant of the family Liliaceae of the same genus garlic leek and shallot no longer found wild, is a biennial now grown in many varieties throughout the world as a table vegetable. Common varieties...
Onions in the perennial flower garden? You might be surprised how alliums can add dynamic color, unique form and unusual shape to your garden.
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Onions and their relatives have almost no odor at all until we cut into them.
Onions may be especially beneficial for women, who are at increased risk for osteoporosis as they go through menopause, by destroying osteoclasts so that they do not break down bone.
This Onion grows throughout the Rocky Mountain West. It is easily distinguished from other species by its nodding flowers (see next photo), and this characteristic gives rise to its specific epithet, "cernuum", which means "nodding".
Unlike onions where each plant normally forms a single bulb, shallots form clusters of offsets, rather in the manner of garlic.
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also delays germination of certain foul herbs
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"Let first the onion flourish there." -Robert Louis Stevenson
(1850‚1894)
Allium oreophilum (formerly A. ostrowskianum) is native of mountains of Eastern Turkestan. The species name means "Mountain Lover." ...
Meadow garlic's oniony odor is especially pronounced after the road maintenance crews have mowed the right of way. Meadow garlic flowers in the spring.
Alliums (Flowering Onions)
Lycorus (Surprise Lily, Magic LIly)
Chionodoxa (Glory-in-the-Snow)
Muscari (Grape Hyacinth)
Fritillaria (Crown Imperial)
Narcissus (Daffodil)
Galanthus Ornithogalum Hippeastrum (Amaryllis) ...
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Bowiea volubilis, Schizobasopsis volubilis (Climbing Onion, Sea Onion, Family: Hyacinthaceae / Liliaceae)
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Allegheny onion (Allium cernuum)
Almond (Prunus amygdalus, Prunus dulcis)
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Amaryllis (Hippeastrum species)
Amazon lily (Eucharis grandiflora, Eucharis amazonica)
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Onion spray can be good for scale, thrips, aphids and mites (pour 3/4 pint (500 ml) boiling water over 2 1/4 lbs (1 kg) of chopped unpeeled onions and strain; dilute 20 times with water for spraying).
(Ornamental Onion)
Amsonia sp. (Blue Star)
Anemonella thalictroides (Windflower)
Anisacanthus wrightii (Texas Firecracker)
Antirrhinum sp. (Snapdragon)
Aralia sp. (Spikenard)
Arisaema sp. (Cobra Lily, Jack in the Pulpit)
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Locally grown vegetables are artichokes, beans (bush and pole, runner, string, snap, broad), beets, Bermuda Onion (Allium cepa), Bermuda cassava, broccoli (a good host plant for caterpillars and their butterflies (Cabbage White), Brussels sprouts, ...
When planting those charming decorative ‘onions,' the alliums, remember that, in the wild, they are found in dry mountainous sites. Therefore, in a garden, they should be grown in well drained and fertile soil in full sun.
Chives grace the garden with bright green stems and pinkish-purple pompon blooms -- all of which offer a distinctly mild onion flavor. Versatile and easy-growing, chives thrive in containers and also form an eye-catching edging in planting beds.
A member of the onion family, Chive plants have narrow, tubular leaves that are delicious snipped fresh into any dish where onions are used.
Französisch oignon, englisch onion, holländisch ui und andere nordwesteuropäische Formen gehen dagegen auf eine andere lateinische Wurzel zurück: Spätlateinisch unio 'Zwiebel' ist wahrscheinlich mit unus 'eins' verwandt und bezieht sich wohl darauf, ...
Persian Onion, one of the largest of the ornamental onions, will significantly decline in foliage appearance by mid-summer, ...
-Chop one cup of sweet onion and one bunch of cilantro and mix with the peas and refrigerate.
Prepare a sauce of one-half cup each of olive oil, Spice Island red vinegar and lemon juice. Add as much finely chopped garlic as you dare.
In the vegetable garden, onions, chives, dill, basil and thyme are rarely bothered. Plant marigolds and nasturtiums throughout the garden, as well.
The durian fruit has a powerful odor reminiscent of decayed onions, Limburger cheese and sherry wine. But the texture is like a smooth, creamy custard and it has a rich, sweet, faintly almond flavor.
Both leaves and flowers smell like onions. The flowers look similar to wild sarsaparilla, but the onion smell and the lack of leaves will distinguish them. Also, wild sarsaparilla grows in dry woods, and wild leek in moist woods.
When boiled and then fried with onions it is said to make a palatable dish that is often used in times of shortage[4].
Garlic also helps prevent black spot, as will other members of the onion family, such as Chives, Egyptian Onion and varieties of Ornamental Allium.
Fruit: An edible fig; purple-brown, pear- or onion-shaped, and somewhat leathery when mature, succulent, 1 to 2 inches, technically a multiple of tiny drupes; ...
Leaves: tall fleshy green cylinder, long and thin, similar to onion leaf blade
Flowers: tall spike of small yellow flowers; stalk to 2-3ft above foliage, 10-12 stalks per individual plant; bloom continually from mid-spring through fall ...
bulbifera,from the Greek, bolbos (bolbos), "bulbous root, bulb; onion", and the Latin, fero, "to bear"; hence, "bulb bearing".
Common name from the green bulblets that form on the underside of the fronds, dropping off to grow into new ferns.
 See also: Green, Lady, Garlic, May, Orange
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