Allium hookeri var. muliense
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Summary
Source: WikipediaAllium hookeri is a plant species native to India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar (Burma), Bhutan, and southwestern China (Sichuan, Tibet and Yunnan). Common names include Hooker chives and garlic chives. Allium hookeri produces thick, fleshy roots and a cluster of thin bulbs. Scapes are up top 60 cm tall. Leaves are flat and narrow, about the same length as the scapes but only 1 cm across. Umbels are crowded with many white or greenish-yellow flowers.
Description
An onion.
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Edible Uses
Allium hookeri is widely cultivated outside its native range, and valued as a food item in much of South and Southeast Asia.
Traditional Uses
The leaves are cooked in stir fry dishes and added to soups.
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Distribution
It is a temperate plant. It grows on the edges of forests and in moist places between 2,800-4,200 m above sea level. It grows in Sichuan and Yunnan in China.
Where It Grows
Asia, China, Himalayas, Tibet,
Notes
They have also been put in the family Alliaceae.
Also Known As
Rijiucai
References (1)
- Ju, Y., et al, 2013, Eating from the wild: diversity of wild edible plants used by Tibetans in Shangri-la region, Yunnan, China, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethno medicine 9:28
