Allium 2010

[Regelian]

Mark,

thanks for the info, but my leaves are not as wide as your A. rosenbachianum.  Attaches are shots of a typical aff. rosenbachianum, plus leaves of three of the hybrids, which show a range of leaf forms.  Does this help in diagnosing the species?  Maybe it is, as well, a hybrid, although all of the seedling I have direct from it remain pretty true, which makes me thing true species.

[WimB]

One which was flowering here today for the first time:

Allium platycaule
and Allium akaka which keeps on flowering

[Alessandro.marinello]

two Allium in flower this week

[PeterT]

One which was flowering here today for the first time:

Allium platycaule
and Allium akaka which keeps on flowering

Nice coulor on your akaka Wim, I'm sure mine is paler

[WimB]

One which was flowering here today for the first time:

Allium platycaule
and Allium akaka which keeps on flowering

Nice coulor on your akaka Wim, I'm sure mine is paler

It's a form bought from Janis if I remember correctly and it's a real dark one indeed.

[PeterT]

Here is what I have as akaka, it gets bigger every year. Allium elburzense taken in the dusk, also some more mature pictures of my Allium haemanthoides, looking fluffy now.

[PeterT]

Two forms I have of A haemanthoides, one from Janis and one I grew from seed. also A minutiflorum from Janis, also A zebdanense, allium akaka and elburzense are not yet out for me

Peter, I see that you are an "allium guy" too

Regarding A. minutiflorum, I believe this is one that Dr. Fritsch mentioned is incorrecly identified.  Janis: did Dr. Fritsch suggest what species your A. "minutiflorum" might really be?

Peter, does your A. zebdanense make much seed.  Mine seems 99% sterile, barely making any seed, but occasionally a small amount of seed does appear and I might get a few self-sown seedlings.  This is my experience with growing it for over 30 years.

Allium zebdanense sets seed with me and I sowed some late this spring some germinated though only one has got its root down, more will probably germinate next spring.
Is there an answer to the naming of Janis's A minutiflorum?
I liked the pictures of Allium colchicifolium Luc, and your jesdianum angustipetalum Arnold, here is Allium jesdianum Per Wenelboi and Shing from Janis

[Maggi Young]

All these Onion Lovers... what is it with men and alliums?
Must be the BBQ factor......

[WimB]

All these Onion Lovers... what is it with men and alliums?
Must be the BBQ factor......

Maggi,

As if you don't like Alliums... or BBQ's for the same matter...   

[Lesley Cox]

It may be something to do with the fact that Alliums are "character" plants. While many are very strong and handsome, few are "pretty" and so maybe they appeal to men more than to women. (We, of course, prefer our men to be strong and handsome, and not pretty.) Besides, no man can resist a good beef stew with lots of sliced and whole onions in it. But nor can I.

[TheOnionMan]

Alessandro - what is the source on your A. chloranthum?  It is a stronger green-yellow color than mine... mine is also with a greenish or chartreuse tinge, but not as dark green as yours.

Wim - nice color form on A. akaka.

Peter - Your A. haemanthoides do indeed look "fluffy", surely one of the better Acanthoprasum types, I like the broad heads peppered with yellow anthers.  On your A. elburzense, not sure what to think, looks very different than the one LucS showed us just a couple pages back.

By the way, ignore the ladies and their BBQ-Allium theories, makes no sense at all.

[TheOnionMan]

Kurt Vickery recently returned from a trip to Kazakhstan, and shared a few photos of Allium karataviense growing en masse.  This particular form looks uniform, large heads of pale color, basically dull white but with greenish or brownish tan nerves, giving an off-white tan coloration to the flowers that effectively blend in camouflage style with the rocks and landscape.

[Maggi Young]

Kurt Vickery recently returned from a trip to Kazakhstan, and shared a few photos of Allium karataviense growing en masse.  

Good grief! they most certainly are growing en masse- what a magnificent sight!

[arillady]

I sure hope our seed blockers here don't see these photos.
How absolutely marvellous - looks like a river bed.

[Lesley Cox]

It IS a river bed isn't it? and you're right Pat, the flowerheads are just about stone-coloured and are beautifully disguised. probably more visible in the flesh, as it were.

Fortunately All karataviense is safely on our Bio Index.