About Allium amethystinum Tausch
Scientific name: Allium amethystinum Tausch. Allium amethystinum is a plant species native to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Sicily, Crete, Malta, Albania, Bulgaria, and the former Yugoslavia. It is cultivated in other areas as an ornamental plant. Horticulturalists classify it as one of several species called "drumstick onions", named for the tight spherical flower knob at the top of the plant that resembles a drumstick. Allium amethystinum grows from a single bulb. Its leaves are tubular and wither before the plant begins flowering. Its flowers are reddish-purple. The tepals barely open when the plant flowers, staying wrapped around the ovary and filaments, leaving only the anthers and stigma exposed.
