Plant Information
Common Name: CHIVES - ALTAI CHIVES
Scientific Name: Allium ledebourianum
Alternative Names: Asatsuki, Siu Yuk.
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R90.00
Scientific Name: Allium ledebourianum
Alternative Names: Asatsuki, Siu Yuk.
N/AR90.00Description
- Perennial
- Altai Chives originates from China and Japan and has an onion-garlic flavour.
- It produces chive-like leaves and small fleshy bulbs, known as ‘fire onions’.
- Altai Chives will grow to about 25 cm tall at maturity extending to 40cm with the flowers, and a spread of 45cm.
- The grassy leaves remain forest green in colour throughout the season.
- They bear dense umbels of pink-purple flowers with soft shades of lavender and pink.
- Although Altai Chives closely resembles classic chives, they are even hardier.
- They are most effective when planted in groupings and ideal for window boxes and patio containers.
- It is an essential and decorative herb, easy to grow in rockeries or well-drained flower beds.
- They can withstand both cold and dry summers.
- Altai Chives need full sun to partly shade.
- It will usually die back to the ground each winter and will regrow again in spring.
Culinary Uses
- Altai bulbs and leaves can be used raw or cooked.
- The leaves and flowers are added to salads or used as a flavouring in soups.
- Their flavour resembles wild onions and chives with a hint of garlic.
Parts Used
- The leaves, flowers and small bulbs.
Medicinal Uses. It is said that
- In recent years, studies have shown a link in decreased prostate cancer in men who use chives regularly.
- It is packed with Phyto-nutrients and antioxidants!
- Chives provide the body a quick energy boost.
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