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Allium rhabdotum

Allium rhabdotum
Photo: Phuentsho, CC BY-SA 4.0

Allium rhabdotum is a bulbous wild onion species from the Himalayas, known only from Bhutan and nearby northeast India, growing in cold mountain terrain. It is rarely cultivated, so care advice here is general to alliums and should be treated as a guide.

Family
Amaryllidaceae (Daffodil & onion family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately during the growing season and keep nearly dry after the leaves die back.
Soil
Free-draining gritty soil or alpine mix.
Temperature
Cold-hardy; suited to cool conditions, protect from prolonged heat above 30 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NE. Bhutan to NW. Arunachal Pradesh
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

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Allium rhabdotum is a species of flowering plant endemic to Bhutan.

Other Allium plants

South Idaho onion · Allium abbasii · Abrams' allium · Allium acidoides · Allium aciphyllum · Tapertip onion · Allium acutiflorum · Allium aeginiense · Allium aflatunense · Allium agrigentinum · Allium akaka · Allium akirense

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allium rhabdotum 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.

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