Allium schubertii

Zucc.

Schubert onion, Tumbleweed onion

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Allium schubertii
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What to Eat

Edible parts: Bulb ?

The bulb is eaten.

Where to Find It

It is a Mediterranean climate plant.

Central Asia, Europe, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Mediterranean, Middle East, Palestine, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Türkiye,

Countries: Andorra, United Arab Emirates, Albania, Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Belarus, Switzerland, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Algeria, Estonia, Egypt, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Iceland, Italy, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Libya, Morocco, Monaco, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Serbia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, San Marino, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yemen

How to Identify

An onion herb in the Amaryllidaceae family with an edible bulb, native to Mediterranean climate regions.

Wikipedia

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Allium schubertii, which has various common names including ornamental onion, flowering onion, tumbleweed onion and Persian onion, is a species of monocotyledonous flowering plant. It belongs to the onion and garlic genus, in the subfamily Allioideae of the family Amaryllidaceae. It occurs in the Levant and Libya.

References (1)
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