Allium nevskianum

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Allium nevskianum Vved. ex Wendelbo is from Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan where it grows in dry mountains at high elevations. It is a superb dwarf species but with immense balls of bloom, somewhat like an enlarged Allium karataviense Regel, but with deeper colored blooms. The first two photos by John Lonsdale. The last two photos by Wietse Mellema from his bulb farm in the Netherlands.