White Allium
by Sarah Loft
Title
White Allium
Artist
Sarah Loft
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This was photographed in the gardens of the Cloisters Museum in New York City.
Per Wikipedia: Allium is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants that includes the cultivated onion, garlic, scallion, shallot and leek as well as chives and hundreds of other wild species.
The generic name Allium is the Latin word for garlic, and Linnaeus first described the genus Allium in 1753. The cooking and consumption of parts of the plants is due to the large variety of flavours and textures of the species. Various Allium have been cultivated from the earliest times and about a dozen species are economically important as crops, or garden vegetables, and an increasing number of species are important as ornamental plants.
Allium species occur in temperate climates of the Northern Hemisphere, except for a few species occurring in Chile (such as A. juncifolium), Brazil (A. sellovianum), and tropical Africa (A. spathaceum). They vary in height between 5 cm and 150 cm. The flowers form an umbel at the top of a leafless stalk.
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Featured in the Global Flowers Photography group, August 2019.
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August 25th, 2019
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Comments (14)
Greg Hayhoe
Beautiful Sarah..looks like a firework going off.. very nice. My POD in Best of Minimalism.
Alida M Haslett
Very beautiful, Sarah. And to image this at the Cloisters is even more beautiful- magnificent museum and grounds. L/F