I looked up your alliums and could not find a single seed or plant source. Are they only available in the wild? I have a perennial garlic that has self-seeded and returned for years, even through minus 20-30F temps. I don't remember where I bought it, but I think it was billed as Egyptian or top-set garlic. All I have been able to find on the web just now are similar plants said to be onions. Mine produce a ball of little garlics and if left unharvested will drop down producing the next year's crop. I like to harvest the little bullets and have them in a dish to spoon out, sort of like a salt dish. If anyone is interested I could share some of the little bulbs. Colleen NE Calif. -----Original Message----- From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mark BROWN Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 10:03 AM To: Pacific Bulb Society Subject: Re: [pbs] Species Alliums being edible? 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/