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Allium amethystinum
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Allium amethystinum

Allium amethystinum is a plant species native to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Sicily, Crete, Malta, Albania, Bulgaria, and the former Yugoslavia, and cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental. It is one of several species that horticulturalists refer to as "drumstick onions" because of the tight spherical "knob" of flowers at the top, resembling a drumstick.

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4 branches of this group, most-observed first

Long-anthered Garlic

speciesAllium phanerantherum

Amethyst Garlic

speciesAllium amethystinum

Allium fuscoviolaceum

speciesAllium fuscoviolaceum

Allium nevsehirense

speciesAllium nevsehirense

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1480448.