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Cirsium oleraceum

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Cynareae
Genus:	Cirsium
Species:	C. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Magnoliopsida is the Botanical name for a class of Flowering plants By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its The Asterales are an order of Dicotyledonous Flowering plants which include the composite family Asteraceae ( Sunflowers daisies The family Asteraceae or Compositae (known as the aster, daisy, or sunflower family) is the largest family of Flowering The Cynareae are a tribe of flowering plants in the daisy family Asteraceae. Cirsium is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the Asteraceae, one of several genera known popularly as Thistles They are mostly native oleraceum

Binomial name

Cirsium oleraceum
(L.) Scop.

Cirsium oleraceum (Cabbage thistle) is a species of thistle in the genus Cirsium, native to central and eastern Europe and Asia, where it grows in wet lowland soils. Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as, May 23 new style (13 May old style 1707 who laid the foundations for Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopoli) ( June 3, 1723 &ndash May 8, 1788) was a Tyrolian Cirsium is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the Asteraceae, one of several genera known popularly as Thistles They are mostly native

It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 1. A herbaceous plant (or in botanical use a Herb) is a Plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of A perennial plant or perennial ( Latin per, "through" annus, "year" is a Plant that lives for more than 5 m tall, with unbranched stems or only a very few branches. The leaves are broad ovoid, with a weakly spiny margin. In Botany, a leaf is an above-ground Plant organ specialized for Photosynthesis. The flowers are produced in dense capitula 2. A flower, also known as a bloom or Blossom, is the reproductive structure found in Flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also An inflorescence is a group or cluster of Flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main Branch or a complicated arrangement of branches 5-4 cm diameter, pale yellow, sometimes tinged pink.

The young stems are edible, and cultivated for food in Japan and India. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country

References

Mansfield crop database: Cirsium oleraceum

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