This excellent red Italian storage onion is shaped like a buttercup squash without the button. It has the flat square-shouldered top tapering like a barrel to a narrower flat bottom. A few years ago our supplier lost this typical shape. Now our stateside grower is reselecting Rossa for both form and storage. Tops slow to go down. Encourage the recalcitrant ones by pushing them over. Takes a while in fall to dry. Very hard and keeps a long time

6-8 plants, should be separated when transplanted.