What are allium?
Allium is a genus of herbal permanent plants commonly known as flowering onions. In addition to the onion in the supermarket, other commercially important members of this group are garlic and leeks. Allium has edible, bulbous roots and leaves, characterized by a very pungent odor.
Although species exist in many areas, most are in the northern hemisphere. Allie bulbs differ in size from small chives to large pores and mature plants also differ in height. They usually grow from rhizomes or short root structures, but some species can grow bulbs from vertical tuber roots or horizontal roots of runners called tables. Most of them grow to flowering maturity of bulbs that will survive for a year to a year, with the kind permission of their unique structure of laminated diaphragans of fibrous meat with a high water content.
Most Allium has from one to 12 sheets, usually long, either flat or tubular. They can be straight or curled. Leaves rarely will have a stem and onijsou always admitsOJENY directly to the root bulb. Leaves can often die when flowers appear. Six stiff petals in two symmetrical WHORL samples surround one feminine style and six stems of a reproductive pollen. Some species, such as garlic, produce onions or small bulbs in Umbel, sometimes replace the whole flower. While most plants spread from flowers that are frozen to small black seed, some species are reproduced by offshoots from the mother.
Allium is grown around the world like different crops, but different types prefer different land and climate. Posts prefer well -drained soil rich in minerals; Some lilies are completely hydroponic. In fact, these are common plants not only in plant gardens, but also ornamental land -popular allium Hollandicum , onions whose flowering bulbs are a dramatic stem of widely crowned clear purple. ThisThe type was kept in different sizes and colors of flowers. On the other hand, some species of the genus are invasive horticultural weeds that attract destructive insects such as moth and butterfly larvae.
sulfoxide compounds that many of these plants produce are a natural discouraging means for predators and garden pests. Some types of allium are toxic to dogs and cats. People consume onions, but sometimes they suffer from watery eyes when handling raw plants. In rare medical cases, allergies to these plants may develop. It is irony that Allium Cepa, an extract from the normal food trade, is sometimes used as a homeopathic remedy for hay fever and other allergic reactions.