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Allium ampeloprasum
Broadleaf Wild Leek
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0218 0395 (2018-02-07)Copyright © 2018 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Jul 13, 2010
latitude 44.79234 longitude 13.98199
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location
Adriatic Sea island Levanić, east of Cape Kamenjak, south Istria (Istria, Croatia)notes Slo.: poletni luk - Habitat: sea shore, about 10 m inland, on a small (100 x 40 m) island; in rocks crevices, red karst soil, skeletal ground; full sun, warm and dry place; elevation 3 m (10 feet); average precipitations 800-900 mm/year, average temperature 13-14 deg C, submediterranean phytogeographical region. - Substratum: soil among rock crevices. - Comment: Genus Allium in Europe includes well over 100 species (Ref.:5), 25 species and subspecies can be found in Slovenia. All plants in this genus have quite similar habit and they have the same characteristic smell on onion or garlic. Most of them are edible. Their determination to species level is not always simple due to the fact that specific traits of leaves and flowers are important. Unfortunately, with most of the species the leaves are already weathered away when the plants bloom. One can almost never see leaves and flowers at the same time. Consequently, most of traditional dichotomous keys are hardly usable. The best books (like Ref.:6) provide two keys, one based on leaves only properties and another one based on flower properties. Allium ampeloprasum is a Mediterranean floral element relatively seldom found in Slovenia. It is restricted to the warmest parts of the country near Adriatic Sea. Its beautiful round inflorescence may have up to 9 cm in diameter and contain up to 500 individual flowers. The cultivated leek is believed to be derived from this species. Ref.: (1) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 743. (2) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 487 (3) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 1066. (4) R. Domac, Flora Hrvatske (Flora of Croatia) (in Croatian), Školska Knjiga, Zagreb (1994), p 393. (5) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 1061.camera Nikon D700/Nikkor Micro 105mm/f2.8 and Canon G11, 6.1-30mm/f2.8-4.5
contributor's ID # Bot_434/2010_DSC3247 photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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Broadleaf Wild Leek, Wild Leek (photographer)
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