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Artichoke🌼
Cynara scolymus
アーティチョーク
A perennial in the daisy family. Japanese name 'Chōsen-azami' (Korean thistle), though it is morphologically a large thistle. Native to the Mediterranean. Grown as a spring vegetable in Europe — the immature flower buds are boiled and the fleshy bases of the bracts and receptacle are eaten.
Identification Points
- ✓Large thistle-like plant, 1.5–2 m tall
- ✓Deeply pinnately divided silvery leaves
- ✓Spherical bud enclosed in scale-like bracts
Habitat
Cultivated (fields, home gardens)
Season
May to July (buds)
Morphological TraitsAI-estimated, needs verification
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Compound
Growth form
Herb
Flower color
Purple
Habitat
Cultivated
Phylogenetic Positionキク科 →
Phylogenetic Position
Angiosperms > Eudicots > Core eudicots > Asterales > Asteraceae
Divergence Era
Late Cretaceous to Paleogene (approx. 80–70 million years ago)
Sources & References
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