what part of a plant is an onion?

Question

what part of a plant is an onion?

Answer 1

Your question made me laugh, first let me say this I am a city girl and I moved up north to the a small town, well I wanted to grow a beautiful vegitble garden this summer and I went out spent lots of money on seed, soil, tools, etc well I had no clue what the hell I was doing and end up growing a weed garden like the weeds that grow on the side walk that kill your grass, well anyways It was growning tall and full green and lovly everytime my friends would stop by I would show them this beautiful garden I was growing, and I always seen that they laughed, so I asked why are they laughing and they said nothing so one day I am trying to impress my future mother in law who was born here my garden and she laughed and laughed and said what hell was I was doing and she finally told me that no my dog dug up my little seed sacks and weeds grew in, I was so pissed off I mean and embarrsed but I know for sure that the bulb that is large under the ground is the oinion!, I'm a dork I know

Answer 2

Onion in the general sense can be used for any plant in the genus Allium but used without qualifiers usually means Allium cepa, also called the garden onion. Onions (usually but not exclusively the bulbs) are edible with a distinctive strong flavour and pungent odour which is mellowed and sweetened by cooking. They generally have a papery outer skin over a fleshy, layered inner core. Used worldwide for culinary purposes, they come in a wide variety of forms and colours.

Onions may be grown from seed or very commonly from "sets". Onion sets are produced by sowing seed very thickly one year, resulting in stunted plants which produce very small bulbs. These bulbs are very easy to set out and grow into mature bulbs the following year, but they have the reputation of producing a less durable bulb than onions grown directly from seed and thinned.

Either planting method may be used to produce spring onions or green onions, which are just onions harvested while immature, although "green onion" is also a common name for the Welsh onion, Allium fistulosum which never produces dry bulbs.

Onions are frequently used in school science laboratories because they have particularly large cells which are easily visible even through rather low-end optical microscopes.

Answer 3

The bulb, the roots come out from the bulb. The bulb constitutes the edible part of the onion. The bulb is comprised of concentric, enlarged fleshy leaf bases, also called scales.

Answer 4

an onion is a bulb...

if you take green onion (scallion) and plant it (assuming that everything is intact)... the white part will eventually turn into a bulb...

wondering what a bulb is? click the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulb

Answer 5

The BULB is the edible part of the onion.

NOT the root.

Answer 6

An onion is a bulb,such as those of garlic, tulips, crocus etc.

Answer 7

the bulb/root depends on the type of onion

Answer 8

Hi. The bulb.

Answer 9

The root, well sorta like a bulb ya know tulip bulbs and what not.

Answer 10

It the editable part.