Himalayan Onion Allium wallichii

[castanea]

Does anyone know of a source for Himalayan onion seed or bulbs:

Allium wallichii aka

Allium wallichii var. platyphyllum or

Allium platyphyllum or

Allium wallichianum

www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Himalaya%20Onion.html

GRIN has 6 old accessions but nothing now.

Native to:
China: China - Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan [s.], Sichuan [s.w.], Xizang [s.e.], Yunnan [n.w.]
Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India - Sikkim, West Bengal [n.]; Nepal
Indo-China: Myanmar

[stevil]

I have seed of wallichii from 2007 - send me a PM with your address and I'll send some..

I wrote about this one on another forum a couple of weeks back (you can see some pictures of the plant I'll send you seed of):

www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3085.0

(see the first entry)

[castanea]

Mar 8, 2009 8:25:03 GMT -5 stevil said:

I have seed of wallichii from 2007 - send me a PM with your address and I'll send some..

I wrote about this one on another forum a couple of weeks back (you can see some pictures of the plant I'll send you seed of):

www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3085.0

(see the first entry)

Thanks!

Great thread on that other forum. I just began getting interested in alliums within the last year and I don't seem to find many people locally who share that interest..