ExpressVPN Launches Tor Onion Service: Expressobutiolem. On this Wikipedia the onion milk links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This article is about the plant. Its close relatives include garlic, scallion, leek, and chive.

The onion plant has a fan of hollow, bluish-green leaves and its bulb at the base of the plant begins to swell when a certain day-length is reached. Onions are cultivated and used around the world. As a food item, they are usually served raw, as a vegetable or part of a prepared savoury dish, but can also be eaten cooked or used to make pickles or chutneys. The most closely related species include A. The vast majority of cultivars of A. The onion has been grown and selectively bred in cultivation for at least 7,000 years.

It is a biennial plant but is usually grown as an annual. The leaves are yellowish- to bluish green and grow alternately in a flattened, fan-shaped swathe. They are fleshy, hollow, and cylindrical, with one flattened side. In the autumn, the leaves die back, and the outer scales of the bulb become dry and brittle, so the crop is normally harvested. If left in the soil over winter, the growing point in the middle of the bulb begins to develop in the spring. New leaves appear, and a long, stout, hollow stem expands, topped by a bract protecting a developing inflorescence.