ثوم أسود

الوصف النباتي

Bulb : Usually single, ovoid to sub-globose, ≈ 4 × 4 cm, clothed in grey-brown membranous tunics.

Stem (scape) : Cylindrical, 5 – 10 mm thick at the base, leafy only in its lowest part.

الأوراق

Leaves : 3 – 5 very broadly linear-lanceolate blades, 1 – 6 cm wide, flat or slightly undulate; the uppermost leaf may end in a small bulb-like swelling.

الأزهار

Spathe : Membranous, splitting into 2 – 4 short lobes that remain shorter than the umbel.، Inflorescence : Dense, convex to hemispherical umbel up to ≈ 7 cm across, holding many flowers on unequal pedicels 2 – 5 × the perianth length, without basal bracteoles.، Perianth : Star-shaped; tepals lanceolate, 6 – 8 mm, almost free at the base, sub-obtuse, usually rose-pink (occasionally white) with a green, pink or whitish keel.، Stamens : Inserted at two-thirds the perianth height; filaments connate and dilated at the base, pink or white; anthers black-purple, brown or yellow, matching tepal colour.

الثمار والبذور

Capsule : Ovoid-rounded, papery, exposed after anthesis when the tepals reflex.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Flowering period : March – May.

الانتشار الموثق

Native range : Mediterranean basin and Canary Islands; in Lebanon from Damour northwards to Tripoli and inland to the Mount Lebanon mid-belt, and widely scattered in western Syria.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit : Stout mountain leek; solitary, erect scape 30 – 100 cm tall, clearly overtopping the foliage.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Allium nigrum

الفصيلة

ثومية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Allium libani var. tannourinensis

Allium sp. (Kornet Chehwan)

Allium sp. (Sannine)

Allium sp. (Zeraaya)