Welcome to this meme active every Friday. The theme is "Friday Greens" and you can post images, art, photos where the predominant colour is GREEN!
GREEN is the colour between blue and yellow in the spectrum; coloured like grass or emeralds.
The globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus) is a variety of a species of thistle cultivated as a food. The edible portion of the plant consists of the flower buds before the flowers come into bloom. The budding artichoke flower-head is a cluster of many budding small flowers (an inflorescence) together with many bracts, on an edible base. Once the buds bloom, the structure changes to a coarse, barely edible form. Another variety of the species is the cardoon, a perennial plant native to the Mediterranean region. Both wild forms and cultivated varieties (cultivars) exist.
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I've only seen them in the store!
ReplyDeleteSomehow artichokes like this have a strange kind of ugly beauty. Fascinating plant.
ReplyDeleteLove eat artichoke!
ReplyDeleteMy artichoke plants are still alive, after 3 nights of frost. I am happy and look forward to "flowers" like this in the spring. Great shot.
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