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Author Topic: Allium ID please?  (Read 386 times)

annew

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Allium ID please?
« on: August 01, 2025, 06:03:02 PM »
Can anyone identify this tiny allium for me? I want to show it tomorrow!
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Re: Allium ID please?
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2025, 07:39:16 PM »
perhaps it's Allium sikkimense Baker  - lovely little blue onion, flowering in July.
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Re: Allium ID please?
« Reply #2 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?
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Re: Allium ID please?
« Reply #3 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!
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