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Thistle, the national flower of Scotland

Published: 2024-11-09 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/09, Thistle is a plant of the genus Thistle of Compositae. Distributed in North Korea, Japan, Taiwan Island and Chinese mainland in Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Hunan, Fujian, Hubei, Guizhou, Guangxi,.

Thistle is a plant of the genus Thistle of Compositae. Distributed in Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Hunan, Fujian, Hubei, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Zhejiang and Chinese mainland in Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Hunan, Fujian, Hubei, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Zhejiang and other places. Grows in areas ranging from 400m to 2100 m above sea level and is generally born in wastelands, grasslands, forests on hillsides, roadsides, thickets, fields, forest margins and streams. It is artificially cultivated for medicinal purposes. Flower language is cautious, rigorous, steady, silent love.

Thistle

Herbs perennial, tuberous fusiform or radish-shaped, to 7 mm in diam. Stems erect, 30 (100)-80 (150) cm, branched or unbranched, all stem branches angled, densely or sparsely multicellular long nodal hairs, grayish white on lower part of capitate inflorescences, densely tomentose and multicellular nodal hairs.

Thistle

They all have white filamentous hair. Basal leaves stipitate, not withered when flowering, oblanceolate or Obovate-elliptic, 15mur30 cm long, surface green, sparsely long haired, abaxially hairy on veins, margin pinnately divided, lobes 5 color 6 pairs, long elliptic, margin spiny; middle leaf long elliptic, base sessile, clasping, margin pinnatifid, spiny, upper leaves tapering. Inflorescences terminal, globose; involucral bracts 3.5 mi 2 cm long and 3 mi 4 cm wide, with arachnoid hairs outside, involucral bracts multilayered, linear-lanceolate. The outer layer is shorter than the inner layer, the tip is acuminate, with short thorns, the innermost layer is longer and unarmed; the flowers are purple or rose, the Corolla tube is slender, and the lobes vary in length. Achenes long oval, Corolla pinnate, slightly shorter than Corolla, dark gray. The florescence is from June to August. The leaves of the broken thistle will have a white milky liquid flow out. Thistle has an amazing ability to repair, breaking its stem and sprouting new buds directly on the cross section.

Thistle

The whole grass is used as medicine to treat febrile bleeding, leaves to treat blood stasis, and external use to treat acne. The whole grass contains alkaloids and volatile oil. Fresh leaves contain large thistle glycosides. The root medicine has the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, dispelling blood stasis and detumescence.

 
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