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Allium hookeri
About
Allium hookeri is a plant species native to India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar (Burma), Bhutan, and southwestern China (Sichuan, Tibet and Yunnan). Common names include Hooker chives and garlic chives. The plant is widely cultivated outside its native range, and valued as a food item in much of South and Southeast Asia.
- Family
- Amaryllidaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Allium hookeri
- Slug
- allium-hookeri
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Amaryllidaceae
- Genus
- Allium
- Species
- hookeri
- Wikidata QID
- Q6580527
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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