Allium schoenoprasum

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Allium schoenoprasum L.

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Ordre Asparagales
Famille Amaryllidaceae
Genre Allium

2n = 16, 24, 32

Origine : aire d'origine

sauvage ou cultivé

Français ciboulette
Anglais chives


Résumé des usages
  • herbe condimentaire


Description

  • plante herbacée vivace, à tige bulbeuse souterraine, allant jusqu’à 1 cm d’épaisseur, fréquemment allongée
  • feuilles linéaires, creuses, aussi longues ou plus longues que la hampe
  • hampe florale de plus de 20 cm de longueur
  • fleurs nombreuses en capitule, de couleur rose-pourpre

Noms populaires

français ciboulette, fines herbes, appétits, civette
anglais chives
allemand Schnittlauch
néerlandais fijn bieslook, snijlook
italien erba cipollina
espagnol cebollino, cebollín
portugais cebolinha, ceboleta
chinois xì xiāng cōng

Classification

Allium schoenoprasum L. (1753)

Cultivars

Histoire

Usages

CHIVE. CIVE. North temperate zone. This perennial plant seems to be grown in but few American gardens, although McMahon[1], 1806, included it in his list of American esculents. Chive plants are included at present among the supplies offered in our best seed catalogs. In European gardens, they are cultivated for the leaves which are used in salads, soups and for flavoring. Chives are much used in Scotch families and are considered next to indispensable in omelettes and hence are much more used on the Continent of Europe, particularly in Catholic countries. In England, chives were described by Gerarde[2] as "a pleasant Sawce and good Potherb;" by Worlidge[3] in 1683; the chive was among seedsmen's supplies[4] in 1726; and it is recorded as formerly in great request but now of little regard, by Bryant[5] in 1783.

The only indication of variety is found in Noisette[6], who enumerates the civette, the cive d'Angleterre and the cive de Portugal but says these are the same, only modified by soil. The plant is an humble one and is propagated by the bulbs; for, although it produces flowers, these are invariably sterile according to Vilmorin.

  1. McMahon, B. Amer. Gard. Cal. 581. 1806.
  2. Gerarde, J. Herb. 139. 1597.
  3. Worlidge, J. Syst. Hort. 194. 1683.
  4. Townsend Seedsman 25. 1726.
  5. Bryant Fl. Diet. 92. 1783.
  6. Noisette Man. Jard. 353. 1829.
Sturtevant, Notes on edible plants, 1919.


Références

  • Chauvet, Michel, 2018. Encyclopédie des plantes alimentaires. Paris, Belin. 880 p. (p. 48)
  • TRAMIL, Pharmacopée végétale caribéenne, éd. scient. L. Germosén-Robineau. 2014. 3e éd. Santo Domingo, Canopé de Guadeloupe. 420 p. Voir sur Pl@ntUse

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