There are about 700 species of bulbous perennials and biennials, in this genus. Native to temperate regions in the northern Hemisphere and Western and Central Asia. \u00a0A single bulb produces clusters of off sets bulbs around it, which gradually forms clumps and range in height from 4\u201d to 5\u2019 feet tall. \u00a0They bear bell, star, cup, and spherical, sometimes hemispherical or ovoid occasionally pendent \u00bd-12\u201d wide flower heads. \u00a0The linear to strap shaped basal or stem-clasping leaves when bruised or cut excrete onion smell. \u00a0They bloom in spring and autumn and some species are edible and have culinary uses. \u00a0Contact with bulb may irritate skin.<\/p>\n
They prefer to grow in open sunny position in fertile well-drained, weed free soil.<\/p>\n
Prone to onion fly, stem eelworm, rust, onion white rot, bulb rots, White rot, mildew, smut <\/i><\/em>and various fungal leaf spots thrips.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n Alluim beesianum<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This clump forming bulbous perennial derives from China and grows 12\u201d tall. \u00a0In late summer to autumn bears few 1\u201d umbels of bell shaped blue flowers. \u00a0It has narrow linear basal grayish green leaves 6-8\u201d long<\/p>\n Zones 6-10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Allium \u2013 Onion There are about 700 species of bulbous perennials and biennials, in this genus. Native to temperate regions in the northern Hemisphere and Western and Central Asia. \u00a0A single bulb produces clusters of off sets bulbs around it, which gradually forms clumps and range in height from 4\u201d to 5\u2019 feet tall. \u00a0They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[82,21,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160252747"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/4224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}