One of the biggest and most striking Alliums with very strong, up to 175 cm tall flower stems. The blue-green, shiny strap-shaped leaves are about eight cm wide and up to thirty cm long. The smooth flower stem bears a rare, perfectly spherical inflorescence with more than 100 individual bluish-violet flowers. A. giganteum is being cultivated since 1883. Origin: i.a. Northeast Iran, Northwest Afghanistan.