Neapolitan garlic
Also known as: daffodil garlic; flowering onion; Naples garlic; scentless onion
Bulbous perennial producing short-lived, linear, mid-green leaves to 30cm long, and umbels of up to 30 pure white, upward facing star-shaped flowers to 5cm across on stems to 40cm tall, produced in summer
Scientific classification
- Species
- Neapolitan garlic (Allium neapolitanum)
- Genus
- Allium
- Family
- Amaryllidaceae
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- Toxicity
- Bulbs
- Plant type
- 0.1-0.5 metres
- Height
- 0.1-0.5 metres
- Spread
- Deciduous
- Foliage
- Clump forming
- Habit
- Spring · Summer
- Season of interest
- Full sun
- Sunlight
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- Ideal temperature
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Distribution of Neapolitan garlic
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Culture
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Toxicity
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Quick identification of Neapolitan garlic
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Neapolitan garlic care guide
- Regular watering spring growth, reduce irrigation autumn leaf dieback
- Watering
- Full sun
- Sunlight
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Watering
Regular watering spring growth, reduce irrigation autumn leaf dieback
Fertilizing
FertilizingWeak bulb liquid feed applied once before spring leaf emergence phase
Pruning
PruningNo pruning required, other than to remove old flowered stems and foliage
Propagation
PropagationPropagate by seed, sowing in containers in a cold frame when just ripe or in the spring and by division of clumps in spring. See bulb propagation
Growing
GrowingGrow in full sun and a fertile well-drained soil. It is best to grow in containers where garden soil is heavy clay and prone to saturation over winter. See allium cultivation
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Common pests and diseases
Diseases
May be susceptible to onion white rot, and onion downy mildew
Pests
May be susceptible to allium leaf miner and onion fly
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