Garden onion
ನೀರುಳ್ಳಿप्याज़வெங்காயம்
Allium cepa L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 38 cm
- wide
- 23 cm
Amaryllidaceae
Formerly Allium angolense, Allium aobanum, Allium cepaeum, Allium esculentum, and 11 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Bulbous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from C. AsiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 红葱, 楼子葱, 火葱
- Czech
- cibule kuchyňská
- Finnish
- ruokasipuli
- Japanese
- タマネギ
- Dutch
- Ui
- Russian
- репчатый лук
- Slovenian
- čebula
- Simplified Chinese
- 洋葱
- Hindi
- प्याज़
- Tamil
- வெங்காயம்
- Telugu
- ఎర్రగడ్డ, ఉల్లి, ఉల్లికాడలు
- Kannada
- ನೀರುಳ್ಳಿ, ಉಳ್ಳಿಗಡ್ಡೆ, ಈರುಳ್ಳಿ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Allium cepa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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