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Title: Allium ID please?
Post by: annew on August 01, 2025, 06:03:02 PM

Can anyone identify this tiny allium for me? I want to show it tomorrow!

Title: Re: Allium ID please?
Post by: Maggi Young on August 01, 2025, 07:39:16 PM

perhaps it's Allium sikkimense Baker  - lovely little blue onion, flowering in July.

Title: Re: Allium ID please?
Post by: Rick R. on August 03, 2025, 03:34:24 AM

Filaments should be shorter than petal length with A. sikkimensis, according to Flora of China.  It looks small enough to be A. cyaneum?

Title: Re: Allium ID please?
Post by: annew on August 04, 2025, 09:43:23 AM

Thank you, think probably A. cyaneum, but it's very small compared with the description. That's what I put on the label anyway!