𝐴𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑚 𝑐𝑣. 'Bulbiferous Ping Pong'

This is a particularly bulbiferous clone that I selected from the progeny of 'Ping Pong', an ornamental clonal cultivar.

This new clone has great ornamental value, and thanks to the combination of its inflorescence bulbils and underground cloves, it has a high multiplication rate, which also gives it some interest as a vegetable.

Indeed, I readily classify it among the pearl onions group because, although the plants are small, with pseudostems about 20 cm long and 1–1.5 cm in diameter, each plant produces between 15 and 35 inflorescence bulbils and between 15 and 25 small, rounded underground cloves, about 1 cm in diameter and lacking tunics, making it particularly suitable for producing cloves for pickling.

Flowering begins in early May. Its white, fertile flowers, as in the original 'Ping Pong', are almost absent and have been replaced by green bulbils, producing particularly broad leaves compared with other cultivars such as 'Catweazle' or 'Hairy Friend'.