The 2025 Season Grand Opening of the "Global Allium Garden" Held at the Tashkent Botanical Garden
It is known that in 2018, the Tashkent center of the Global Allium Garden program, specializing in the conservation of wild onion species at the international level, was established at the Tashkent Botanical Garden named after Academician F.N. Rusanov.
This center brings together over 100 species of wild onions belonging to the floras of Central Asia, Iran, and the Mediterranean region, making it the second largest after the center at the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
GLOBAL ALLIUM GARDEN is a project initiated through the joint efforts of scientists from Uzbekistan and China and has become a symbol of the strong friendship between the two nations.
On April 26, 2025, the grand opening ceremony of the Global Allium Garden was held. The event was attended by professors from the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, leadership from the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, researchers from the Institute of Botany, and the team of the Tashkent Botanical Garden.
The Allium Garden covers a total area of 0.5 hectares. It features not only wild onion species native to Uzbekistan's flora but also other geophyte plants such as tulips, irises, and eremuruses.
Each species in the collection is accompanied by its Latin name, with QR codes installed to provide information about the species' distribution area, biological characteristics, and significance.
The Uzbek-Chinese Allium Garden serves as one of the first projects of great importance in advancing scientific cooperation between the two countries to a new level.
