Allium Tuberosum (Garlic Chives) 韮(ニラ)

Japanese follows English. 英語の後に日本語が続きます。

These are flowers of Allium tuberosum or more commonly garlic chives. Bugs seem to like them. I found a tiny black leaf beetle and a common straight swift butterfly on them (2nd photo).

This is my first time seeing garlic chives growing on roadsides. I love the chives for their smell, eating them on a daily basis by boiling and seasoning them with soy sauce or putting them into miso or Chinese soup, but didn't have the guts to try roadside chives.

Allium tuberosum flowers with a leaf beetle 韮の花とハムシ

Garlic chives flowers with common straight swift ニラの花とイチモンジセセリ



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韮の花です。虫の好物みたいで、ちっちゃい黒い羽虫とイチモンジセセリが止まっていました。私もニラ大好きでしょっちゅう食べてますが、道端の韮を取って試す勇気はありませんでした。

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