Please ID this shallot

[rowan]

Last year I also asked for an ID on this top setting shallot. I am hoping that with another year, and a few more members that I may get an answer this time. This shallot has pink skin and is rounded. The topsets produce both viable flowers and bulblets and often the bulblets produce more topsets of their own, like walking onions. They are like a miniature version of walking onions but with bigger bulbs.
I got them at a small market stall a few years ago but the owner didn't know anything about them so no help there.

[raymondo]

Perhaps they are just a strain of walking onions.

[rowan]

No, they don't look or taste like walking onions. The mention of how they look like them was about how they form stories of topsets but they are definitely shallots.

[meganp]

rowan, what is the growth cycle when grown from seed? look like a potato onion x'd with shallot x walking onion - do you happen to grow all three in your garden and have they happened to flower at the same time?

[rowan]

Because I grow all three of those in the one block I don't let any go to seed, I take off all flower stems and I just prefer to go with division. I did let a few of these shallots seed last year but I haven't planted the seed so I a not sure of the growth cycle from seed.

[templeton]

Rowan,
anything on the melbourne uni allium database? He does have quite a few pics. Maybe you could email him, might be interested in what you've got.
raymondo sent me some top setters with pink bulbs a few years ago (just replanted em Ray) which die down in summer, and if i recall a few of these flowered for him -perhaps your climate is stimulating more flowering, or you have a variant.
could be something new that someone just found, they are all A.cepa aren't they? Or at least can cross.

[rowan]

Thanks for the tip, I will look on the database