''Allium macrostemon'' (野蒜, ノビル), Chinese garlic, Japanese garlic or long-stamen onion,
is a species of
wild onion Wild onion can refer to
* any uncultivated species in the genus '' Allium'', especially:
**'' Allium bisceptrum''
** '' Allium canadense''
** ''Allium tricoccum
''Allium tricoccum'' (commonly known as ramp, ramps, ramson, wild leek, wood leek, o ...
widespread across much of
East Asia
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. It is known from many parts of
China, as well as
Japan (incl
Ryukyu Islands
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),
Korea
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,
Mongolia
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,
Tibet
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and
Primorye
Primorsky Krai (russian: Приморский край, r=Primorsky kray, p=prʲɪˈmorskʲɪj kraj), informally known as Primorye (, ), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of t ...
. It has been collected from elevations ranging from sea level to 3000 m.
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''Allium macrostemon'' produces one round bulb up to 2 cm in diameter. Scape is up to 70 cm tall. Leaves are shorter than the scape, long and hollow, round or triagonal in cross-section. Umbel is large and crowded with many pale red or pale purple flowers.
Allium macrostemon is mentioned in Huangdi Neijing
''Huangdi Neijing'' (), literally the ''Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor'' or ''Esoteric Scripture of the Yellow Emperor'', is an ancient Chinese medical text or group of texts that has been treated as a fundamental doctrinal source for Chines ...
as one of the five consumable herbs (五菜) which included mallow ('' Malva verticillata'') (葵), pea leaves (藿), Welsh onion
''Allium fistulosum'', the Welsh onion, also commonly called bunching onion, long green onion, Japanese bunching onion, and spring onion, is a species of perennial plant, often considered to be a kind of scallion.
The species is very similar ...
(蔥) and garlic chives
''Allium tuberosum'' (garlic chives, Oriental garlic, Asian chives, Chinese chives, Chinese leek) is a species of plant native to the Chinese province of Shanxi, and cultivated and naturalized elsewhere in Asia and around the world.
Description ...
(韭).
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macrostemon
Onions
Flora of Manchuria
Flora of China
Flora of Eastern Asia
Flora of the Russian Far East
Plants described in 1833
Taxa named by Alexander von Bunge