Cynara
Flowering artichoke (Cynara cardunculus )
The Artichoke (Cynara ) are a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family ( Asteraceae). The types have their areas in the Mediterranean region, Macaronesia and Western Asia. Best known is the kind Cynara cardunculus L., because of this, the two groups of varieties used as a vegetable artichoke and Cardy have emerged.
Description
Artichokes are thistle-like, strong, one-to perennial herbaceous plants that reach heights of growth from 50 to 250 cm. The leaves are composed and have a spiny margin.
The large bloom conditions contained only tubular flowers. The many bracts are in five to more than eight rows. The radial symmetry tubular flowers are white, pink to purple.
The fruits are achenes with more or less fused pentagon with fallschirmartigem Pappus of three to seven rows at their base hair.
System
The first publication of the genus Cynara was made in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum. The genus belongs to the subtribe Cynara Carduinae from the tribe Cynareae in the subfamily of herbaceous within the sunflower family ( Asteraceae).
There are about ten species of the genus of artichoke (Cynara ):
- Cynara algarbiensis Mariz: It is native to the Iberian Peninsula.
- Cynara auranitica Post: The home is the Middle East eastward to western Iran and Turkey.
- Cynara baetica ( Spreng. ) Pau ( Syn: Cynara alba DC, Cynara hystrix ball. ): With two ways: Cynara baetica ( Spreng. ) Pau subsp. baetica in Spain.
- Cynara baetica subsp. maroccana Wiklund in Morocco.
- Cynara cardunculus L. subsp. cardunculus ( Syn: Cynara corsica Viv, Cynara horrida Aiton, Cynara sylvestris Lam.. )
- Cynara cardunculus ssp. flavescens Wiklund: Occurrence in North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy and Macaronesia.
- Artichoke ( Cynara cardunculus subsp scolymus (L.) Hegi, Syn. Cynara scolymus L.)
Swell
- David J. Keil: Cynara. In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee ( eds.): Flora of North America North of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: unranked, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1 ( Mutisieae - Anthemideae ), Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford et al 2006, ISBN 0-19-530563-9, page 89, online ( engl. ).