Onions are great. I love to eat them on my burgers.
Oh yes, Onions are the most widely cultivated species in their genus.
It's probably because they are so delicious that there's no competition. They go with so many foods as well.
Onion
The onion ("Allium cepa" L., from Latin "cepa" "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus "Allium". Its close relatives include the garlic, shallot, leek, chive, and Chinese onion.
This genus also contains several other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion ("Allium fistulosum"), the tree onion (
List of onion cultivars
There are dozens of cultivars of the onion ("Allium cepa"), one of the most widely cultivated species of the genus "Allium", But there are also other species cultivated as 'onions'. Many are named after the first person to breed them, or the locality they came from. Different localities often use their own common names for cultivars that are genetically almost identical. Sometimes different cultivars are known by the same common name (for example the name 'Chinese chives' could