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  • Plant ID - Mystery allium

    Help - I'm trying to id this allium that grows in my front garden.

    Smells strongly of garlic (edible, I've used it like chives, snipped on buttered bread).
    The leaves are relatively narrow, about 5mm wide and maybe 15cm long, with a crease in the middle. Clusters of white flowers, flowers late April/early May. Grows over winter, the leaves are now starting to die down.

    My original guess was few flowered leek, but the flowers don't quite look right.
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    Location: London

  • #2
    Neapolitan garlic.
    https://www.ispotnature.org/communit...slender-leaves
    Near Worksop on heavy clay soil

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Plot70 View Post
      That's it! Thank you, it has been bugging me for months, and for some reason that option didn't come up when I was searching a while back.
      Location: London

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      • #4
        I read about garlic and other spring bulbs over winter and into the period of dry weather.
        That made it easy to help you.
        Near Worksop on heavy clay soil

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