Allium paradoxum

Wonder leek (Allium paradoxum )

Wonder leek (Allium paradoxum ), also called Strangely leek or " wild garlic Berlin ", is a species of the genus Allium (Allium ). It may be similar to the wild garlic occur in mass stocks.

Description

The Curious leek is a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches the plant height of 20 to 30 centimeters. This Geophyt forms onions with diameters of up to 1 inches as Überdauerungsorgan; the paper-like tunic is gray-black. It is the typical leek odor present. The three -edged stem is naked axes. Usually only one or sometimes three basal leaves is available. The sessile leaves leaf is 20 centimeters long and 0.5 to 2.5 centimeters wide curved, linear or elliptic lanceolate, keeled and narrowed at the base. The growing season lasts from early spring to early summer.

The flowering period is from April to May and lasts about 20 days. On a long inflorescence stem is a Doldiger inflorescence with usually two to five ( zero to ten ) nodding, long -stemmed flowers and often up to twenty green bulbils, sometimes missing flowers. It is a small bract available. The hermaphrodite flowers are in threes, radial symmetry and wide bell-shaped. The six equal multiform bracts are erect, blunt, durable and milky white. The scar is dreizipfelig.

Occurrence

The miracle leek is originally from the Caucasus mountains in Central Asia and northern Iran. The Miracle Leek is an invasive species, the mass spread and thus can be extremely troublesome in gardens.

The miracle leek forms from March lawn -like stands that bloom before the wild garlic and wilted again in June. How wild garlic has the strange leeks a typical smell like chives, edible onion or garlic and how these edible.

System

By Friedrich August Marschall von Bieber stone in 1819 the first publication of its kind under the name Scilla paradoxa in Fl. taur. - caucas. , 3, pp. 267 George Don put them in Mem Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc., 6, 1827, p 72 under the name Allium paradoxum in the genus Allium. Allium paradoxum belongs to the section Briseis in the subgenus Amerallium within the Allium genus.

Swell

• Allium paradoxum in Ornamental Plants From Russia And Adjacent States Of The Former Soviet Union. ( Description section )
• Wonder leeks. In: FloraWeb.de.