Re: Nothoscardum
- Subject: Re: Nothoscardum
- From: J* D*
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 08:32:06 -0700 (PDT)
As weeds go this one does not rouse as much irritation
in me as others like Foeniculum.
-Jason Dewees
SF, CA
--- p.k.peirce@att.net wrote:
> Dear Richard and other members,
>
> That would be Allium triquetrum, which is a
> mediterranean plant from the actual Mediterranean. I
>
> wrote about it in my book Golden Gate Gardening as a
>
> weed that is edible. (The rule of thumb is that if
> an
> onion-like plant doesn't smell like onion, don't eat
> it,
> but this one, as you said, smells strongly of
> onion.)
> We keep it in a small area of the garden and eat the
>
> leaves as you would green onions all winter. They
> are
> fine added to soup as you are about to serve it, or
> in
> salad, or whereever scallions are called for. We use
> the
> flowers in salads.
> To identify: the flower stems are triangular in
> cross-
> section and the leaves have a strong keel, which
> gives
> them a third angle as well. The flowers have a green
>
> line the length of each of the 6 tepals (petal or
> sepal).
> To get rid of it: Pull as it begins to bloom to get
> the
> whole plant. Or, after it goes dormant in spring,
> dig
> out all of the bulbs.
>
> Pam Peirce,
> San Francisco
> Zone 9 or 10
> > For the California readers, does anyone know the
> name of the weed-like onion
> > that grows all over the SF bay area? (Dormant
> this time of year). Unlike
> > Nothoscardium, it has a strong onion-like smell.
> Flowers look very much the
> > same. White bulbs, round, about 1 cm in diameter,
> several inches below the
> > surface (no bulbils to speak of) and resembles the
> green onion sold in
> > stores. I note that Cal Flora lists 45 species of
> allium in California.
>
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