Remaining unnoticed for 100 years, a Kyrgyz onion species strikes with its beauty
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 16:01
in Biology & Nature
The mountainous regions of Central Asia are particularly rich in the onion genus Allium. Kyrgyzstan has a great plant diversity, with nearly 3800 native vascular plants, including 85 onion species. Among them is a tiny group of minute species that had gone unnoticed for 100 years of botanical studies in the region but was recently discovered in the Sary-Chelek Nature Reserve.