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Safflower is a fast growing, erect, winter/spring-growing annual herb, that resembles a thistle. [2] Originating from a leaf rosette emerges a branched central stem (also referred to as terminal stem), when day length and temperature increase. The main shoot reaches heights of 30–150 cm (12–59 in).
Carthamus lanatus is a species of thistle known as woolly distaff thistle, [1] downy safflower [2] or saffron thistle. It is closely related to safflower ( Carthamus tinctorius ). This annual plant is a native of the Mediterranean Basin , but it is familiar in other places where it was introduced and has become a noxious weed , such as in parts ...
In botany, a rosette is a circular arrangement of leaves or of structures resembling leaves. In flowering plants, rosettes usually sit near the soil. Their structure is an example of a modified stem in which the internode gaps between the leaves do not expand, so that all the leaves remain clustered tightly together and at a similar height.
The genus Carthamus, the distaff thistles, includes plants in the family Asteraceae. [4] The group is native to Europe, North Africa, and parts of Asia. [3] [5] The flower has been used since ancient times in the Philippines, which it has been called kasubha by the Tagalog people.
Commercially important plants in Asteraceae include the food crops Lactuca sativa (lettuce), Cichorium (chicory), Cynara scolymus (globe artichoke), Helianthus annuus (sunflower), Smallanthus sonchifolius (yacón), Carthamus tinctorius (safflower) and Helianthus tuberosus (Jerusalem artichoke).
The Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi), it is the hottest desert in Mexico.
Each sura was demarcated into groups of twenty verses using rosettes made from either silver leaf or silver ink. [6] [2] The verse markers were also detailed with red paint, which were thought to have come from either lac or safflower. Curiously, several pages of the manuscript have been completely or partly stripped of the golden letters.
The rosette design is used extensively in sculptural objects from antiquity, appearing in Mesopotamia, and in funeral steles' decoration in Ancient Greece.The rosette was another important symbol of Ishtar which had originally belonged to Inanna along with the Star of Ishtar.