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Allium tekesicola is a small wild onion from the Ili River Basin of Xinjiang and Kazakhstan, grown as a bulbous geophyte. Give it a sunny, well-drained spot and let the bulb rest dry through summer.
Allium tekesicola is a plant species endemic to the Ili River Basin in Xinjiang and Kazakhstan.
Allium tekesicola produces one or occasionally 2 bulbs, each up to 10 mm across. Scape is up to 60 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are shorter than the scape, very narrow. Umbels have only a few red flowers.
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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.
