Allium x proliferum - Tree Onion - Egyptian Onion - Walking Onion
A robust perennial vegetable with a unique growth habit and excellent culinary versatility. Unlike typical onions, it produces clusters of small bulbils atop its stalks, which eventually bend to the ground, propagating new plants naturally. This trait makes it an efficient and low-maintenance crop that can look after itself and offer a continuous harvest. Ideal for sustainable gardening.
The greens can be used as spring onions/scallions. The lower stem and bulb are thicker and useful in place of leek. The bulbils atop the plant can be pickled or used like little onions.
Known by various common names, walking onion makes the most sense to us so we use that one.
