Nov 15, 2011
Seedy
Posted by Lorianne under Flowers & plants, Newton | Tags: allium, gone to seed, NaBloPoMo |[5] Comments
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Hoarded Ordinaries
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Nov 15, 2011 at 7:43 am
Oh, that’s astonishing and beautiful! Do you know what it is?
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Nov 15, 2011 at 7:52 am
I believe it’s some sort of allium, the same genus that includes onions and (I believe) garlic.
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Nov 15, 2011 at 8:07 am
Nice photo of ramps, or wild leeks in seed. Two solitary leaves (much like lily of the valley) show up early in spring and then rapidly dissolve away, leaving only a single stalk. The ramp bulb is very slow-growing (7 years to maturity, 20 years to any real size) but tastes like garlicky-onion. You can use the leaves in cooking as well. I have a few in my wildflower garden but am careful to only take one leaf per plant. We collect ramps in larger number from a huge forest patch up north.
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Nov 15, 2011 at 8:54 am
Lovely.
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Nov 15, 2011 at 10:42 am
Ah, so this is what ramps look like when they go to seed! Thank you for the ID, jan579. I’d heard of ramps–specifically, how strongly-flavored they are–but I wouldn’t have expected to see them growing in a suburban garden. At least I got the genus right, as ramps are a kind of allium.
I’m glad you liked this, jo(e). I also took a less-zoomed-in shot, but I liked the “extreme closeup” effect of this one.
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