Wild Beauty

Wild Beauty

© Maj P K Gill
i found the beautiful thistle flower with the bud on my trek to a hillside.. and i love the way it had braved past 3-4 days of torrential rains but the soil below it could not do the same .. and gave way therefore it was flowing down the drain into the larger stream i picked it up and got it… and now i feel that what a wonderful thing i did… and this is in a pot in my house now.. hope you enjoyed seeing this.. thistle flower.. and bud…

More on thistle flower….

Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae. Prickles often occur all over the plant – on surfaces such as those of the stem and flat parts of leaves. These are an adaptation that protects the plant against herbivorous animals, discouraging them from feeding on the plant. Typically, an involucre with a clasping shape of a cup or urn subtends each of a thistle’s flowerheads.

The term thistle is sometimes taken to mean exactly those plants in the tribe Cynareae (synonym: Cardueae), especially the genera Carduus, Cirsium, and Onopordum. However, plants outside this tribe are sometimes called thistles, and if this is done thistles would form a polyphyletic group.

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