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To: Black Agnes

No; those are A. c. “Aggregatum”, the common bunching onion, AKA potato onion.

These are Allium cepa “perutile”. Don’t flower or form seeds ever; also don’t form a distinct bulb, but rather just a fatter end, like a large scallion...but with papery onion skin, unlike scallions.


53 posted on 03/29/2013 8:14:39 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Wonder how day length dependent it is. I’m going to have to search for some now.


54 posted on 03/29/2013 8:15:52 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: ApplegateRanch

Is this them?

http://rareseeds.com/red-welsh-bunching-onion.html

I put your allium perutile in a search engine and got ‘welsh perennial onion’ then searched for that.


69 posted on 03/29/2013 10:04:34 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: ApplegateRanch

Very interesting, it looks like something they call the Everlasting Onion.


90 posted on 03/30/2013 8:53:51 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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