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Published In: Species Plantarum 2: 827. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 5/16/2022)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 1/6/2021)
Contributor Text: Abdul Ghafoor
Contributor Institution: Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – PAKISTAN
Synonym Text:

C. cardunculus L., var. sativa Moris, Fl. Sard. 2: 460. 1840; C. cardunculus L. var. scolymus (L.) Fiori in Fiori & Paol., Fl. Anal. Ital. 3:380. 1904.

Flower/Fruit:

Fl. Per.: June – October                             Engl. Vern.: Globe or French Artichoke

Type:

Type: Described from Italy, Sicily and S France, Herb. Linn. 969.1 (LINN).

Distribution:

A native of Mediterranean Europe and N. Africa, introduced as vegetable and naturalised in many countries.

Comment/Acknowledgements:

The Globe Artichoke is one of the world’s oldest cultivated vegetables. Its large flower-buds (young or immature capitula) that form the edible part of the plant and smaller flower-heads are occasionally pickled.  Young flower-buds especially phyllaries and receptacle are eaten in salads since pre-Roman times. The leaves have been used in traditional medicine since many centuries. It is an anti-oxidant and is now included in British and European Pharmacopeias including Homoeopathic Pharmacopeia of USA.

Map Location:

B-7 Hazara Dist.: Abbotabad, Herb, 5 – 6 ft., divaricately branched above, basal leaves ca 3 ft long, Heads blue, Cult., alt. ± 4000 ft., 28. 6. 1975, M. N. Chaudhary & M. A. Siddiqui et al. 390 (A & ISL).)


 

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Upright, 0.5 – 2 m tall, whitish arachnoid to glabrescent, branched, ± sulcate internodes. Leaves greyish-green, bipinnatisect, large, upto ca 100 cm long, and ca 50 cm broad, basal rosetted, arachnoid hairy, lower oblong or broadly lanceolate, with wide, espinose or mucronulate, irregularly lobed  primary segments; median and upper stem leaves smaller, sessile; uppermost reduced to 5 – 6 cm long, linear-oblong, acute tipped blades. Capitula large, subglobose, 6 – 7 cm long, (5-) 7 – 8 cm across, solitary terminal on short, 1 – 6 cm long peduncles. Phyllaries often purplish,  coriaceous, ± fleshy at base; outer erect or somewhat recurved; median and inner straight, acute; inner fleshy with ovate-triangular, 1.5 – 4 cm long and 1.2 – 3.5 mm wide obtuse appendage. Florets numerous, bluish-purple. Cypselas oblong, 6 – 7 (-8) mm long, dark brown, white mottled. Pappus bristles unequal, 2 – 3 cm long, ± yellowish.

 
 
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