Young tubular flower of the spear thistle. The Walsingham Farm, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa (2024). Also called Scottish thistle or bull thistle. A spiny, herbaceous, biennial plant, with a large basal rosette of leaves, a deep taproot, and a flowering stem growing from the center of the rosette up to 1.5 m high.… Continue reading Spear thistle (Cirsium vulgare)
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Nodding thistle (Carduus nutans)
Close-up on a budding flower. The Walsingham Farm, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape (2024). Also called musk thistle, or nodding plumeless thistle. A spiny, herbaceous, biennial plant, with sharp spines that densely covers the stems and leaf margin, giving the plant a spiny texture. Leaves dark green and bipinnately lobed.Flower heads are large, red, pink or… Continue reading Nodding thistle (Carduus nutans)
Silver-leaf bitter apple (Solanum elaeagnifolium)
Details of the satansbos flower, with its purple petals and its thick yellow pistils. The Walsingham Farm, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape (2024). Also called satansbos (in Afrikaans), silver-leaf nightshade or bitter apple. A herbaceous shrub, growing up to 60 cm high, with felty stems and deep, spreading roots. Stems and undersurfaces of the leaves covered… Continue reading Silver-leaf bitter apple (Solanum elaeagnifolium)
Spear thistle (Cirsium vulgare)
Young tubular flower of the spear thistle. The Walsingham Farm, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape (2024). Also called Scottish thistle or bull thistle. A spiny, herbaceous, biennial plant, with a large basal rosette of leaves, a deep taproot, and a flowering stem growing from the center of the rosette up to 1.5 m high. Stems have… Continue reading Spear thistle (Cirsium vulgare)
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