What is a garlicule? was Re: The world's most desired bulb

Tim Eck via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:14:08 PDT
Seems like the tree onion (walking onion, Egyptian onion, Allium x
proliferum) is the champion for this trait.  They were always easy to grow
but laborious to use.
Tim

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 5:03 PM David Pilling via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 16/04/2020 17:35, oooOIOooo via pbs wrote:
> >My particular garlic variety, however, did not produce any carpules.
> Instead it produced what appears to me to be one very small bulb in the
> place of each fruit.
>
> There's a photo on the PBS wiki of an Allium bulb growing on a seed head:
>
>
> https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/…
>
> A quote from the wiki
>
> "Allium canadense ... most of the flowers are replaced by bulbils...
> Each year I ... bag and discard the promiscuous propagules."
>
>
>
> --
> David Pilling
> http://www.davidpilling.com/
> _______________________________________________
> pbs mailing list
> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…
>
_______________________________________________
pbs mailing list
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…


More information about the pbs mailing list