CULTIVARS. A laborer piles bags of red onions (Allium cepa) at a stall in the Terminal for West-bound buses in Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City today, as the price of this essential cooking ingredient soars to as much as P300 per kilo. Red onions are cultivars of the onion and have purplish-red skin and white flesh tinged with red. Photo by Gerry Lee Gorit