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Allium victorialis
Also called Alpine Leek, Long Root Garlic, Long Root Onion, Longroot Onion
Victory onion is a broad-leaved perennial wild onion from mountains of Europe, the Caucasus and the Himalayas, grown from a bulb. It needs cool, well-drained conditions and a period of winter chill to thrive.
Allium victorialis, commonly known as victory onion, Alpine leek, and Alpine broad-leaf allium is a broad-leaved Eurasian species of wild onion. It is a perennial of the Amaryllis family that occurs widely in mountainous regions of Europe (including Caucasus) and parts of Asia (Himalayas).
Some authors consider certain East Asian and Alaskan populations as constituting subspecies platyphyllum within the species Allium victorialis. Recent sources recognize this group as a distinct species, called Allium ochotense.
Allium victorialis is found widely across mountain ranges Europe, as well as the Caucasus and the Himalayas.
The plant, in past centuries in certain mountainous regions of Europe, "was cultivated as a medicinal and fetish plant". The plant known as pukusa to the Ainu people in northern Japan, an important food source, had been classed as A .victorialis subsp. platyphyllum, but recent genetics classify it under its own species, Allium ochotense.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allium victorialis 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.
