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Allium aeginiense is a small bulbous onion relative endemic to Greece, known only from the Meteora area of Thessaly. Grow it like other alliums: a sunny, well-drained spot where the bulb can stay dry in summer.
Allium aeginiense is a plant species endemic to Greece. It is known only from the area near Meteora in the Thessaly region.
Allium aeginiense produces an egg-shaped bulb up to 25 mm across. Leaves are flat, green, very narrow, up to 10 cm long but rarely more than 1.5 mm wide, covered with hairs up to 2 mm long. Scape is round in cross-section, up to 20 cm tall, hairless, bearing an umbel of up to 40 flowers. Flowers are bell-shaped, pinkish-purple, with yellow anthers and a green ovary.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allium aeginiense by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
