Allium amethystinum
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| Round-headed leek Aglio ametistino | |
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| Allium amethystinum 'Red Mohican' | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Subgenus: | A. subg. Allium |
| Species: | A. amethystinum |
| Binomial name | |
| Allium amethystinum | |
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Allium amethystinum is a bulbous herbaceous perennial in the family Amaryllidaceae, 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]
Allium amethystinum has a single bulb. Leaves are tubular, withering before flowering time. Up to the time of flowering the flower stem is bent, straightening only just before blooming.[5] 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.[6][7] Plants grow to 90–120 cm (3–4 ft) in height.