Shallot (Allium cepa)
Species Onion (Allium cepa)
The shallot is a cultivar group of the onion. Until 2010, the shallot was classified as a separate species, Allium ascalonicum. The taxon was synonymized with Allium cepa in 2010, as the difference was too small to justify a separate species.
At a glance
- Lifecycle
- Biennial
- Germination temperature
- 1.7–35 °C
- Ideal germination temperature
- 23.9 °C
- Germination time
- 6–12 days
- Time to harvest
- 90–125 days
- Frost limit
- −4 °C