Taxon: Allium cepa L. var. aggregatum G. Don

See other conspecific taxa:

• Allium cepa (897 accessions)
• Allium cepa var. cepa (92 accessions)

Common names:

• ever-ready onion   (Source: Zander ed17 [as A. cepa Aggregatum Group]) – English
  
• multiplier onion   (Source: Mansf Ency [as A. cepa Aggregatum Group]) – English
  
• potato onion   (Source: Mansf Ency [as A. cepa Aggregatum Group]) – English
  
• shallot   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• huo cong   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• échalote   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• oignon patate   (Source: UPOV ) – French
  
• Schalotte   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• chalota   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• chalote   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• escaluña   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  

Distributional range:

• only cultivated

References:

• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17) [= A. cepa Aggregatum Group].
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Friesen, N. & M. Klaas. 1998. Origin of some minor vegetatively propagated Allium crops studied with RAPD and GISH. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 45:511–523. [this study used non-USDA accessions of this taxon as a source of comparison to solve the origin of the French grey shallot (=A. oschninii)].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. (Mansf Ency) [= A. cepa Aggregatum Group].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Office of the Union. 2009. UPOV: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. List of the taxa protected by the members of the Union. (UPOV)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm) [treats as A. cepa var. ascalonicum (L.) Backer].
• Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 8:64. [= A. cepa Aggregatum Group].
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

Synonyms:

• (=) Allium ascalonicum auct.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Allium cepa cv. solaninum Alef.
  

Check other databases for Allium cepa L. var. aggregatum G. Don:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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