Allium chinense

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Allium chinense

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Asparagales
Family: Alliaceae
Genus: Allium
Species: A. chinense
Binomial name
Allium chinense
G.Don.

Allium chinense (ラッキョウ Rakkyō in Japanese, Simplified Chinese: 辣韭, Traditional Chinese: 辣韭; syn. Allium bakeri Regel, Allium splendens Willd. ex Schult.f.) is an edible plant in the Alliaceae family.

It is also used as a folk medicine curing heart disease.

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