Allium sativum is the Latin name for which vegetable?
Allium ("A. sativum") and chives ("A. schoenoprasum"). Some have been used as traditional medicines. Allium Allium is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants that includes hundreds of species, including the cultivated onion, garlic, scallion, shallot, leek, and chives. The generic name "Allium" is the Latin word for garlic, and the type species for the genus is "Allium sativum" which means "cultivated garlic". Linnaeus first described the genus "Allium" in 1753. Some sources refer to Greek αλεω (aleo, to avoid) by reason of the smell of garlic. Various "Allium" have been cultivated from the earliest times, and about a dozen species are
Taxonomy of Allium "C. neriniflorum") and "Allium" L. "sensu stricto" (type: "A. sativum") to correspond to lines 1-3. The three evolutionary lineages and 15 subgenera here represent the classification schemes of Friesen "et al." (2006) and Li (2010), and subsequent additional species and revisions. Although this lineage consists of three subgenera, nearly all the species are attributed to subgenus "Amerallium", the third largest subgenus of "Allium". The lineage is considered to represent the most ancient line within "Allium", and to be the only lineage that is predominantly bulbous, the other two having both bulbous and rhizomatous taxa. "Nectaroscordum" and "Microscordum" are bulbous, but