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Allium tenuicaule

Allium tenuicaule is a small wild onion from Central and West Asia with clustered narrow bulbs and dark purple flowers. Grow it like other hardy alliums: full sun and well-drained soil, left alone to naturalise.

Family
Amaryllidaceae (Daffodil & onion family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Full sun
Water
Water during active growth in spring, then keep nearly dry while dormant in summer.
Soil
Free-draining, gritty or sandy soil.
Temperature
Hardy to about -15 °C; tolerates cold winters well.
How easy
Easy
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
NE. Iran to C. Asia and W. Himalaya
Climate
temperate

About

Allium tenuicaule is an Asian species of wild onion found in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. It has a cluster of narrow bulbs, and a scape up to 20 cm tall. Leaves are very narrow and hair-like. Flowers are dark purple.

Other Allium plants

South Idaho onion · Abrams' allium · Allium aciphyllum · Tapertip onion · Allium aeginiense · Allium aflatunense · Allium agrigentinum · Allium alabasicum · Allium albotunicatum · Allium alibile · Altai Onion · Allium altissimum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allium tenuicaule 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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