Taxon: Allium neapolitanum Cirillo

Common names:

• daffodil garlic   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• false garlic   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  
• flowering onion   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• Naples garlic   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• Naples onion   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Neapolitan garlic   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  
• ail de Naples   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• Neapellauch   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• ajo porro   (Source: EuroMed Plantbase ) – Spanish
  
• neapellök   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (in Mexico fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Eur Gard F; F BritStace)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands [Tenerife]
  Northern Africa: Egypt [n.]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey [w.]
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico [c.]

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Press, J. R. & M. J. Short, eds. 1994. Flora of Madeira.
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. [cult. & natzd.].
• Stearn, W. T. 1944. Notes on the genus Allium in the Old World. Herbertia 11:11–34.
• Stearn, W. T. 1986. Nothoscordum gracile, the correct name of N. fragrans and the N. inodorum of authors (Alliaceae). Taxon 35:338.
• The Hebew University of Jerusalem. Flora of Israel Online (on-line resource).
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Allium neapolitanum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Allium neapolitanum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Allium neapolitanum.

Synonyms:

• (=) Allium inodorum Aiton
  
• (=) Nothoscordum inodorum (Aiton) G. Nicholson
  

Check other web resources for Allium neapolitanum Cirillo:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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