Taxon: Allium ×proliferum (Moench) Schrad. ex Willd.

Common names:

• Beltsville bunching onion   (Source: Brewster 1994 [as A. cepa × A. fistulosum]) – English
  
• Catawissa onion   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• Egyptian onion   (Source: Brewster 1994 [as A. cepa × A. fistulosum]) – English
  
• top onion   (Source: Allium TaxGR 207.) – English
  
• tree onion   (Source: Allium TaxGR 207.) – English
  
• Wakegi onion   (Source: Brewster 1994 [as A. cepa × A. fistulosum]) – English
  
• lou zi cong   (Source: F ChinaEng [as A. cepa var. proliferum]) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• oignon d'Égypte   (Source: UPOV [as A. cepa var. viviparum]) – French
  
• ägyptische Zwiebel   (Source: Zander ed17 [as A. cepa Proliferum Group]) – German
  
• Catawissazwiebel   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• Luftzwiebel   (Source: Zander ed14 [as A. cepa var. viviparum]) – German
  
• wakegi   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide Onions, as A. cepa × A. fistulosum)
  

Distributional range:

• only cultivated

References:

• Brewster, J. L. 1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. 3:15. [= A. cepa × A. fistulosum].
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17) [= A. cepa Proliferum Group].
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. (Mansf Ency)
• Maaß, H. I. 1997. Genetic diversity in the top onion, Allium × proliferum (Alliaceae), analysed by isozymes. Pl. Syst. Evol. 208:35–44. [provides evidence for the origin of different alleles in relation to parental species].
• 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)
• Ohle, H. 1992. Karyotype analysis using Giemsa C-banding technique in Allium species of six sections of the subgenus Rhizirideum. In: Hanelt, P. et al., eds., The genus Allium - taxonomic problems and genetic resources. Proceedings of an international symposium held at Gatersleben, Germany, June 11-13, 1991. (Allium TaxGR) 227.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng) [= A. cepa var. proliferum (Moench) Regel].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Allium x proliferum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Allium x proliferum. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Allium cepa var. bulbiferum Regel
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Allium cepa var. proliferum (Moench) Regel
  
• (=) Allium cepa cv. viviparum (Metzg.) Alef.
  
• (=) Allium cepa var. viviparum (Metzg.) Mansf.
  
• (=) Allium ×wakegii Araki
  

Check other databases for Allium ×proliferum (Moench) Schrad. ex Willd.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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