Herb. No. 190 · Amaryllidaceae
Central Asian origin; a garden bulb on every continent with a kitchen.
Native · Central Asia
Native Also grownNow a garden plant worldwide
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Onion
Allium cepa
Fruit & vegetableHarvestCompanions
The bulb that starts the pan — a kitchen allium with a long folk record as food, not as a syrup protocol.
Onion is the world’s most planted allium. Traditional use is as food that happens to sting the eyes and the cold. Culinary amounts are the path. Raw onion in quantity bothers some guts; cooked is kinder. This is not the onion-honey cough jar on another bench — that is a kitchen preserve from a named bulb, not a whooping-cough plan.
Flavor
Sweet when cooked long; sharp and sulfurous raw. A spring onion is a milder, greener cousin.
Parts used
Bulb · Green top
Helpful
- Stores if cured
- A bed that pays all winter
Cautions
- Onion maggot in some soils
- Raw in quantity is a gut argument
- Toxic to dogs