Allium amethystinum

Allium amethystinum is a plant species native to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Sicily, Crete, Malta, Albania, Bulgaria, and the former Yugoslavia, and cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental.[2] It is one of several species that horticulturalists refer to as "drumstick onions" because of the tight spherical "knob" of flowers at the top, resembling a drumstick.[3][4]

Round-headed leek
Aglio ametistino
Allium amethystinum 'Red Mohican'
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. amethystinum
Binomial name
Allium amethystinum
Synonyms[1]
  • Allium rollii A.Terracc.
  • Allium segetum Jan ex Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Allium sphaerocephalon subsp. rollii (A.Terracc.) K.Richt.
  • Allium stojanovii Kov.

Allium amethystinum has a single bulb. Leaves are tubular, withering before flowering time. Flowers are reddish-purple, the tepals barely opening at flowering time, remaining wrapped around the ovary and filaments so that only the anthers and stigma are exposed.[5][6]

References
  1. The Plant List
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Altervista, Schede di Botanica, Allium amethystinum
  4. Pacific Bulb Society, Milwaukie, Oregon USA. Drumstick onions
  5. Ignaz Friedrich Tausch. 1828. Syll. Ratlb. ii. 256.
  6. "Malta Wild Plants, Round-headed leek". Archived from the original on 2014-04-17. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
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