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IN two samples of Allium neapolitanum bulbs, received from Van Tubergen, Holland, Levan1 reported 14 and 28 chromosomes. Feinbrun2 also reported the tetraploid form (2n = 28) of this species growing wild in Palestine. In a sample I have received from de Jager's, Holland, I have found only the diploid. In a second sample, however, there were again tetraploids; in addition there were two new types, triploids (2n = 21) and pentaploids (2n = 35).
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HATTERSLEY-SMITH, M. Allium neapolitanum: a Mixed Species. Nature 178, 272 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178272a0
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