I'Itoi Perennial Bunching Onion

One of our favorite type of "Potato Onions" that is used mostly as a green onion, but also can be dug and used in lieu of a shallot or onion and is more heat tolerant. This one multiplies vigorously so your patch of perennial onions will be here in no time! Spade Foot Nursery says: "The original US harvest of the wild I'Itoi Onion took place on I'Itoi Mountain, which is also known as Baboquivari Mountain. This mountain is regarded by the O'odham nation as the navel of the world – a place where the earth opened and people emerged. The name I'Itoi signifies the Elder Brother, who is the creator deity in Tohono O'odham legends; consequently the onion is a sacred reminder of the O'odham creation story. Botanical studies place the I'Itoi onion among a very old line of clumping onions brought to the US by Jesuit missionaries in the late 17th century, concluding that the onion is not necessarily a US native. Regardless of the contradicting histories, the I'Itoi Onion has a special place among Sonoran Desert culinary culture."

Planting Justice received our mother plants from Kelly Winterton in Utah.

*Note: Goes dormant in some harsh winter climates or will die back and resprout in hot weather for a short period. Frost hardiness of the green tops is unknown at the moment.