I was after this plant for a long time. This week I again found this plant flowering, and asked gardener about it. He gave me English name Choice and Hindi name Neelie, but I was apprehensive because I could not detect any onion smell. Today I asked another gardener, he gave the same name and said it has sweet onion smell. He could smell it, I could not, perhaps my smell power has become less sensitive. I did some thinking, and thought chives as closest, but it is not Allium schoenoprasum, which however, has pink flowers. Next the garlic chives, Allium tuberosum, and yes the plant looks much similar, but one problem. Allium tuberosum grows in our College Botanical garden, but flowers only in August September. This one flowers in April. Since it is supposed to be important medicinally, could any member throw more light on this.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:05 PM, prasad dash <[email protected]>wrote: > Wao...... superb close up Sir Ji. > > Regards > > prasad > > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Resurfacing again for ID >> >> Earlier feedback >> >> Me...............................................Tracked it down to some >> species of Muilla, but yet to fix the species. >> Interestingly the genus Muilla which is very similar to Allium except for >> lacking the characteristic smell was proposed by G. Watson in 1879 by >> writing the spellings of genus Allium in reverse order. Perhaps three >> species of the genus are recognised, and the plant matches most with M. >> transmontana, but the leaves are broader than that species. >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> . >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >> Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:19 PM >> Subject: 04032011GS2 for ID from Delhi >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >> >> >> 04032011GS2 for ID from Delhi >> The herb has all characteristics of Allium, but no trace of any onion or >> garlic smell >> Leaves linear, flat, about 1 cm wide, all basal, upto 25 cm long >> Scape about 30-40 cm long, flowers subumbellate, subtended by spathaceous >> bract >> Flowers white, about 8-9 mm across; filaments without any basal teeth. >> Growing in Herbal Garden in Delhi >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Prasad Kumar Dash > Ecologist, Orissa, India > email: [email protected] > ph. 09437444241 >
