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Read about Cynara in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Cynara (involucre spines likened to a dog's tooth). Compositae. Artichoke and Cardoon. Thistle-like perennial herbs, mostly coarse, and sometimes prickly: Ivs. commonly large, variously lobed or pinnatisect: head large, terminating important branches, the corollas violet, blue, or white; involucre broad or nearly globular, with bracts in many series and more or less enlarged at the base; receptacle fleshy and plane, bristly; corolla slender-tubed, 5-parted, not ligulate: fr. a thick glabrous compressed or 4-angled achene with a truncate apex. —Ten or a dozen species in the Medit. region and Canary Isls., two of which are grown as garden vegetables. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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+Thistle-like perennial herbs, mostly coarse, and sometimes prickly: Ivs. commonly large, variously lobed or pinnatisect: head large, terminating important branches, the corollas violet, blue, or white; involucre broad or nearly globular, with bracts in many series and more or less enlarged at the base; receptacle fleshy and plane, bristly; corolla slender-tubed, 5-parted, not ligulate: fr. a thick glabrous compressed or 4-angled achene with a truncate apex. —Ten or a dozen species in the Medit. region and Canary Isls., two of which are grown as garden vegetables.
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