Plant I.d please

[Paddytray]

Hi guys and girls the neighbours been digging up his garden and pulling up some plants . He has come across one that smells onion like . Can anyone I.d it for me please.

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[Toddy]

Looks like an allium to me. If it smells of onion, then that's what it'll be.
Which one, I don't know. BR might well though

atb,
M

 

[Paddytray]

Thank you toddy . Come on red where are you

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[Toddy]

I too would like to know; if that plant grows less than two foot high, I've got it's buddy growing up through my tulips I 'think' I planted them with a mixed set of spring bulbs so it was a generic 'flowering allium' type thingie.
Pretty but not spectacular. If I don't dead head then it sets a kind of mini oniony crown of mini green stems.

atb,
M

 

[British Red]

I'm here

Its certainly very likely to be an alium and I would suggest not a wild UK one. - Could be allium neapolitanum?
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[Toddy]

If that comes in pink, the same pink as Lady's Smock, then maybe .....it seems to start forming little bulbils up top just as fast as the flowers ripen though.

cheers,
M

 

[Paddytray]

That does look a lot alike bar the pink

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[British Red]

The only edible one I know that forms bulbules at the top in a really pronounced way is the Egyptian walking onion

but there are ornamentals that do it too

 

[Paddytray]

Thanks red . I should make sure he doesn't chuck the flowers over his salad later then . He's bound too

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[cranmere]

Babington's Leek does that but the flowers are the wrong colour.

 

[Paddytray]

Toddy yes mate its just under 2 ft and spreading all over his lawn

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[Toddy]

It's a bit cheugh to put in a salad, but the little bulbil things are a tasty munchy

That's probably what's happened though; the original plant has been left to go to seed and when it rotted down the little bulbs set themselves in his grass. Give them a year or so and it'll be a crop of pink alliums

Mine are much smaller than those Babbington's ones BR. I think you're right and it's an ornamental of some kind.

atb,
M

 

[Paddytray]

He does have quiet a spread

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[slowworm]

I've just realised it looks like a plant I've just spotted in the last couple of days whilst walking the dog. I think Wild Onion, Allium canadense, is a possibility. It does look quite variable when you look at various images of it, but some show pink flowers and red bulbils.

 

[Paddytray]

Thank you slowworm

 

[Toddy]

http://www.bulbsonline.org/ibc-jsp/...pring-blooming-bulbs/allium/Allium-roseum.xml

atb,
M

 

[Paddytray]

Toddy is it ok to eat the bulbs or any other part of the plant ?

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[Jackdaw]

Jumping in a bit late as I can see from Toddy's post that she may have it already but pretty certain it's not Neapolitan Garlic as it would have a tri-cornered stem if it was.

Jack

 

[Toddy]

I know of no toxic ones, and have never heard of any. Some taste much better than others though, and if there's no sulphur around they won't taste of onion at all.
Some are way too tough and stringy to be bothered eating, others are too 'dry'. Our eating varieties are chosen because they're juicy or soft.....like chives rather than like tough grass, sort of thing.

One way to find out

That said, onions do give some people dreadful wind.

I think the ones you have in the photo are most likely allium roseum.

M

 

[Paddytray]

The stem is round and very fibrous

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