Botany: artichoke identification
Self-tutoring about botany: the tutor identifies a plant he saw.
Yesterday, in a sidewalk garden, I noticed a striking plant. It had big purple flowers, perhaps 8 to 10cm across, consisting of many long filaments. The flowers reminded me of Canada thistle.
The flowers sat inside bunches of thick, succulent leaves on high stalks, perhaps around 60-100cm tall. The lower leaves, not associated with flowers, were palmate, with long, thin lobes off which more branched.
That’s how I remember the plant, but I only beheld it for about 30 seconds. At home I searched it, from memory, on the internet. I have no doubt it’s an artichoke, perhaps Cynara scolymus.
I didn’t take a picture, but some of the sources below have some.
Source:
Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.
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