Talk:Chives

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Contents 1 Family 2 Content source 3 Content problem 4 Japanese and Chinese cuisine 5 Onion Family?

[edit] Family

Welsh onion is grown for leaves too. What about leeks? are they in the same family? -- Oct 2002, Tarquin

Welsh onions and leeks are in the same family, indeed the same genus, Allium. -- WormRunner | Talk 06:53, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Content source

It should be noted that the content introduced in this edit is from Andham2000's website and thus should not be removed as a copyright violation. -SCEhardt 00:23, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Content problem

In the section History and Folklore in the first part it is said that Marco Polo brought chives from China to Europe. But later it is said that Romans (who lived some 1000 years before Marco Polo) believed that chives had this and that medical usage. So the content is self inconsistant.--Philopp 12:41, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the inconsistencies - MPF 15:18, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese and Chinese cuisine

There was a paragraph about Japanese and Chinese cuisine in the article before i rewrote it, I couldn't find any references for that claim, all I found related to Chinese chives, which is a completely different species.

Anyone? -Obli (Talk)^? 20:01, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Onion Family?

Not sure on this, but shouldn't the first line refer to onions as a genus rather than family? (Allium) 67.170.108.226 (talk) 07:16, 25 November 2007 (UTC)