Japanese name: ネギ（葱） Scientific name:Allium fistulosum
[Overview]
A perennial thought to be a cultivated species that originated in China.
There are strains such as nebuka-negi, whose leaf sheaths are blanched long by hilling up soil, and ha-negi (leaf negi), which is not specially blanched.
The leaves are tubular and hollow with pointed tips, and the surface is covered with wax.
Many flowers form a ball at the tip of the flower stalk, and this flower head is commonly called negi-bozu.
[History]
In Japan it is already named in the Nihon Shoki, and it was cultivated in the Heian period.
[Cultivation]
Pests and diseases include virus diseases, aphids and leafminer flies.
