Species Alliums being edible?

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Allium cernuum was eaten by the Indians in America and Canada

I grow loads of A. ursinum for eating
they taste much better as A, schoenoprasum the sad thing is that it's just a
short period that you can eat them

How do you make your pesto Mark
maybe better to PM me

Roland

2013/4/5 Mark BROWN <brown.mark@wanadoo.fr>:

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"
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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.

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