Dear All, I have introduced Allium ursinium in the parts of the garden dedicated to wild food. I enjoy its' mild flavour of late in salads and a few leaves thrown in with pasta as it is cooking. You can make a great sort of pesto from its leaves which keeps well. Allium vineale is wild here and makes a good addition as a wild vegetable. I have grown A. oleraceum but this becomes too much except in the wildest places. A. ampeloprasum is quite a delicious alternative to garlic! A. senecens is grown for its' edibility but I have yet to try it! A. sativum ophioscorodon is just a curiosity. A. cepa aggregatum is a bit fiddly to use. Kind regards, Mark > Message du 05/04/13 18:44 > De : "Nhu Nguyen" > A : "Pacific Bulb Society" > Copie à : > Objet : Re: [pbs] Species Alliums being edible? > > I would say that it's not a good thing to eat wild onions, particularly > because like many other geophytes, it takes so long for them regenerate. > The ones in California takes about 4 years to mature from seeds and I would > not expect any less from the ones in Israel. Perhaps they were eaten more > thousands of years ago was because they were much more common. With that > said, if you want to grow some up in your garden to eat, I'd be really > interested in your assessment of the flavors. > > Nhu > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Shmuel Silinsky wrote: > > > There are many species of Allium native here in Israel. Some are endemic. I > > am wondering if all are edible, both as leaf or as bulb. Obviously flavor > > will vary, even bitterness, but are any poisonous? > > > > I am especially interested in knowing about Allium aschersonium. It has a > > large bulb - and I would like to try it as an edible. > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/