The free flower screensaver, The Onion Flower, contains 33 high quality images of the onion flower. Allium is the onion genus, with about 1250 species, making it one of the largest plant genera in the world. They are perennial bulbous plants that produce chemical compounds that give them a characteristic onion or garlic taste and odor, and many are used as food plants. Allium is classified in family Alliaceae although some classifications have included it in the lily family (Liliaceae). Most bulbous alliums increase by forming little bulbs or offsets around the old one, as well as by seed. Several species can form many bulbils (tiny bulbs) in the flowerhead. - wiki The Onion Flower is a free screensaver created by RateMyScreensaver.com. Free Screensaver Picture Count: 33 Free Screensaver Type: Slideshow Credit: All images in this free flower screensaver fall under one of the following licenses: Creative Commons, Attribution ShareAlike 2.0, Attribution ShareAlike 2.5, public domain, GNU Free Documentation License