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Allium vavilovii is a wild onion from the mountains of northeastern Iran and southern Turkmenistan, and a close relative of the common onion. It is a bulb plant grown mainly for research and breeding rather than as a garden ornamental, so it needs cool, dry conditions like those of its native range.
Allium vavilovii is a species of wild onion in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to southern Turkmenistan and northeastern Iran. Out of the approximately 1000 species of Allium it and Allium asarense are the closest known relatives of the common onion Allium cepa.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allium vavilovii 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.
