1.   After flowering, the mother bulb is exhausted, dies and gives up its food reserves to its daughter bulbs.

2.   By the time it flowers, the mother bulb is ready to die, giving whatever resources it has left to the daughter bulbs, but unequally.

3.   Food energy is devoted to producing a flower and to growing these daughters, not to the survival of the mother bulb.

4.   It was happy and multiplied, although unlike their white-flowered mother bulb, the baby bulbs have gone native, sending up bright red blooms.

5.   The name pregnant onion is appropriate, since tiny bulbs appear on the mother bulb.

6.   The mother bulb is planted with most of its girth above the soil line.

7.   The plant gets it name by producing little offsets about the size of peas under the skin of the mother bulb that sits above the soil.