{"id":11943,"date":"2017-06-24T21:01:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T19:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=11943"},"modified":"2018-08-26T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T07:40:08","slug":"allium-x-cornutum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=11943","title":{"rendered":"Allium x cornutum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Allium x cornutum, a topsetting onion hybrid. One of the parents is Allium cepa, but the second is as far as I know unknown! I dug <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">it up today, replanted many of the smaller bulbs to see how much they produce in one year and also some of the larger ones. The rest will be eaten!<br \/>\nThis\u00a0one originating in Croatia\u00a0 was the only one of 3 accessions from Gatersleben in Germany that has proven very hardy here (although a French accession survived a few years; the other was from India)! The picture below shows all 3 accessions received in August 2009:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/A.-cornutum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15531\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/A.-cornutum.jpg\" alt=\"A. cornutum\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/A.-cornutum.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/A.-cornutum-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Croatia\u00a0only flowered once (picture) in 2012 and \u00a0it had only one flower head. It has small bulbils and pinkish flowers.<br \/>\nThese onions below were growing very densely in a patch about 25 x 15 cm..<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11943 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=19002'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P8040343-768x1024-1-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P8040343-768x1024-1.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P8040343-768x1024-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P8040343-768x1024-1-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=19003'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"564\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1750102-1024x731-1-1024x731.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1750102-1024x731-1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1750102-1024x731-1-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1750102-1024x731-1-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=19004'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1750139-300x229-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>In summer 2017, I found\u00a0 an onion called\u00a0 \u00abSint-Jansui\u00bb (Allium fistulosum var bulbifera\u00a0 &#8211; this is the old name for Allium x cornutum, it&#8217;s not Allium fistulosum) in the Utrecht botanical garden:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1730996-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1730996-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1730996-1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/P1730996-1-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Botanist Gerard van Buiten at Utrecht told me the following:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAh, I see you have found our &#8220;St Jansuien&#8221;! Yes, it is an old local variety, grown around Utrecht. One of our gardeners used to grow it on his nursery a long time ago. Every year on &#8220;St. Jansdag&#8221;, a box of onions was delivered at Paleis Soestdijk, where Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard used to live. It is grown nowadays in some urban garden projects in the city\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Allium x cornutum, a topsetting onion hybrid. One of the parents is Allium cepa, but the second is as far as I know unknown! 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