Vegetable
Bunching Onion
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Bunching onion is the horticultural class name for non-bulbing onions sold and grown for repeated green harvests—true fistulosum types that tiller into bunches. Mild onion flavour and hollow leaves define the class. Seed packets use this term worldwide. Sow densely for baby bunches or space for thick shafts. The grower’s synonym for spring onion crops. Cut above the base to regrow.
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Characteristics
Preparations
Cut And RegrowDense Baby BunchMarket BunchMultiuse GreenThick Shaft Grow
Traits
Bunching HabitGrower TermHollow LeafHorticultural ClassMildNon Bulbing TillerRegrowsRepeated Harvest
History
Seed trade standardised bunching onion as a class distinct from bulbing onions.
Market gardeners sowed bunching onions for continuous bunches.
Organic seed lists featured many bunching onion cultivars.
Bunching onion remained the professional grower term of art.