Model onion - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 40587 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 175.27 ALLIACEAE Allium sp | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Model onion | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Model onion | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Model onionUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: The onion, Allium cepa, is the chief food plant in which the food is stored in a bulb. Its antiquity is undoubted, as it was worshipped in Egypt before the Christian era and also played a part in the rites of the Druids. Onions are cultivat, ed in both temperate and tropical countries; they probably arose from either Southern Asia or the Mediterranean region; Suttons Improved, Reading. | ||||