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Allium alibile is a bulbous wild onion from northeast Africa and southwest Arabia, grown mainly as a curiosity or in rock and bulb gardens. It is a dormant-season geophyte that needs a dry rest after flowering.
Allium alibile is a plant species native to Ethiopia, Sudan and Saudi Arabia. It has a round, white bulb. Umbel is dense with many flowers crowded together. Flowers are bell-shaped, rose pink.
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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.
