Allium is a monocot genus o flouerin plants, informally referred tae as the ingan genus. The generic name Allium is the Laitin wird for garlic.[1] The genus, includin the various edible ingans, garlics, chives, an leeks, haes played a pivotal role in cuikin warldwide, as the various pairts o the plants, aither raw or cuiked in mony ways, produce a lairge variety o flavors an texturs.
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See Leet o Allium species for a full leet. Some important species include:
- Allium acuminatum — tapertip ingan, Hooker's ingan
- Allium allegheniense — Appalachian ingan
- Allium ampeloprasum — (broadleaf) wild leek
- A. ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum — elephant garlic
- A. ampeloprasum var. kurrat — kurrat
- A. ampeloprasum var. porrum — leek
- Allium anceps — twinleaf ingan
- Allium angulosum — moose garlic
- Allium aflatunense — flouerin ingan
- Allium atrorubens — dark reid ingan
- Allium caeruleum — blue globe ingan
- Allium campanulatum — dusky ingan
- Allium canadense — Canadian garlic
- Allium cepa — ingan, gairden ingan, bulb ingan, common ingan
- Allium cernuum — noddin ingan
- Allium chinense — Cheenese ingan, Cheenese scallion, Japanese scallion, Oriental ingan
- Allium fistulosum — Welsh ingan
- Allium galanthum
- Allium giganteum — giant ingan
- Allium hollandicum — flouerin ingan
- Allium libani — Lebanese ingan
- Allium neapolitanum — white garlic
- Allium nevii — Nevius' garlic
- Allium nigrum — black garlic
- Allium oleraceum — field garlic
- Allium oschaninii — shallot
- Allium paradoxum — few-flowered garlic
- Allium ramosum — fragrant garlic
- Allium sativum — garlic
- Allium schoenoprasum — chives
- Allium scorodoprasum — saund leek
- Allium siculum — Mediterranean bells, Sicilian honey garlic
- Allium sieberianum — Schult.f.
- Allium stipitatum — Persian shallot
- Allium textile — prairie ingan
- Allium tricoccum — wild leek, ramp
- Allium triquetrum — three-cornered leek, triquetous garlic
- Allium tuncelianum — Tunceli garlic, Ovacik garlic
- Allium tuberosum — Cheenese chives
- Allium ursinum — buckrams, wild garlic, broad-leaved garlic, wid garlic, bear's garlic
- Allium vineale — craw garlic, wild garlic
Umberto Quattrocchi. 2000. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names volume I, page 91. CRC Press: Boca Raton; New York; Washington,DC;, USA. London, UK. ISBN 978-0-8493-2673-8 (set)
