Onion is a perennial herb of Liliaceae and Allium. Its bulb is thick, nearly spherical, papery to thin leathery, with thick endothelium and fleshy. Its leaves are cylindrical, hollow, thickest below the middle, and gradually narrow upward. It is shorter than scape, and the scape is stout, as high as 1 m, and the umbel is spherical, with dense flowers and white pollen.
Characteristics of onion
Onions are native to Central Asia or West Asia, and there are many different varieties, which are used in foods all over the world. There are pictures of harvesting onions in ancient Egyptian stone carvings in BC 1000, and then spread to the Mediterranean region. During the Western Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian communicated with the Western Regions and brought back many species from the Western Regions.
At that time, there were records of planting onions in the western regions. After the great geographical discovery, it spread from Europe to the world,16th century to North America,17th century to Japan, and18th century Lingnan Miscellanies recorded that onions were introduced to Macau by white Europeans and planted in Guangdong.
According to the information of Checheng Town Office, in 19 12, a Japanese primary school teacher who taught in Tamsui introduced onions from Japan to Taiwan Province Province for the first time. Starting from 19 18, the Agricultural Laboratory of Governor's Office of Taiwan Province Province tried to plant onions all over Taiwan Province Province, but the effect was not good.
Under the sponsorship of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Forestry and the Conference on Agricultural Resumption, Taiwan Province Agricultural Laboratory continued to introduce various onion varieties and planted them in various parts of Taiwan Province Province. It was successfully planted in Yunlin, Chiayi, Tainan and Pingtung in the south of Taiwan Province Province, and Hengchun, Fenggang and Checheng became the largest onion producing areas in Taiwan Province Province.