La Mola flora Card de Moro Spanish Oyster Plant

            from:  Flowers of Menorca by Miguel Cao Barredo

Scolymus hispanicus

Spanish Oyster Plant
Card de Moro, Catalines

This is one of the most abundant thistles and its fine bearing, its flowers of an orange-yellow colour and the fact that it releases a whitish liquid when cut, differentiates it from others. Its young leaves and roots, boiled, can be consumed as a vegetable and its infusion a diuretic. Its flowers have been used to dilute saffron. The infusion of the root with wine, and the macerated root itself, were used as a deodorant.

Description: A biannual or perennial, robust, downy, very spiny plant 20-100 cm. high, with a whitish latex and alate spiny stems. Ptiolate, deeply divided lower leaves, up to 12 cm. long, less spiny than the upper ones which are semiembracing, lance-shaped, stiff anf deeply toothed. Capitulums 3 cm. long surrounded by an involucres of spiny bracts. Flowers are all ligulate, yellow, hermaphrodite and with five teeth. Aquenium 5mm.  long

Habitat: Lots, uncultivated fields.
Flowering: May – August.

Taken on: September 29, 2009

Tags:

Menorca

España

Baleares

Illes Balears

Minorca

la mola

flora

dry

brittle

Spanish Oyster Plant

Card de Moro

Catalines

Scolymus hispanicus

29_09_2009

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Sets appears in: • La Mola • Menorca 2009 #2 more » • flora menorca • dry « less

Camera: Ricoh Caplio GX100, f/6.3, 1/203 sec, 15.3mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Ricoh Caplio GX100
Aperture:	f/6.3
Exposure Time:	0.005 sec (1/203)
Focal Length:	15.3mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
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