The onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa "onion"), otherwise called the bulb onion or normal onion, is a vegetable that is the most generally developed types of the variety Allium. The shallot is a herbal assortment of the onion. Until 2010, the shallot was delegated a different animal varieties.
The onion plant has a fanatic of empty, somewhat blue green leaves and its bulb at the foundation of the plant starts to grow when a specific day-length is reached. The bulbs are made out of abbreviated, compacted, underground stems encompassed by plump changed scale (leaves) that wrap a focal bud at the tip of the stem.