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Botanical details
- Family
- Amaryllidaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Allium
- Genus description
Allium are bulbous herbaceous perennials with a strong onion or garlic scent, linear, strap-shaped or cylindrical basal leaves and star-shaped or bell-shaped flowers in an umbel on a leafless stem
- Name status
Correct
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