Allium maximowiczii Regel

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Amaryllidaceae > Allium

Characteristics

Bulb usually solitary or paired, rarely clustered, tunic gray or yellowish brown, papery, subentire. Leaves 1 or 2, shorter than scape, semiterete to terete, fistulose, smooth. Scape 20--40(--70) cm, covered with leaf sheaths for 1/3--1/2 its length, smooth. Spathe 2-valved, persistent; beak short. Umbel hemispheric, densely many flowered. Pedicels 2--3 × as long as perianth, ebracteolate. Perianth rose pink or dark pink; segments with red, fine midvein, oblong-lanceolate, 5--7 mm, apex acute. Filaments subequal, slightly shorter than or equaling perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments; outer ones subulate; inner ones narrowly triangular, ca. 2 × as wide as outer ones at base. Ovary globose. Style exserted. Fl. Jul. 2 n = 16.
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An onion herb. It can have one or two bulbs. There are 1 or 2 leaves. The stalks is 20-40 cm long and covered with leaf sheaths for up to 1/2 its length. The flower head is half round.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 0.4
Root system rhizome
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Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in meadows and along rivers between 100-500 m above sea level in north China.
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Damp meadows along river valleys, forest margins and wetlands.
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

Usage

Uses gene source
Edible bulbs flowers leaves
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 365
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment stratification
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Images

Allium maximowiczii unspecified picture

Distribution

Allium maximowiczii world distribution map, present in Chile, China, Japan, Montenegro, and Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:528395-1
WFO ID wfo-0000756711
COL ID 5TX75
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Allium maximowiczii Allium maximowiczii f. leucanthum Allium prostratum Allium shoenoprasum f. leucanthum Allium ledebourianum var. maximowiczii Allium maximowiczii var. shibutsuense Allium maximowiczii var. yezomonticola Allium schoenoprasum subsp. maximowiczii Allium schoenoprasum var. orientale Allium schoenoprasum var. shibutsuense Allium schoenoprasum var. yesomonticola Allium schoenoprasum var. bellum