Definitionn. southern European plant having spiny leaves and purple flowers cultivated for its edible leafstalks and roots
Last update: June 19, 2015
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No cultivated plant has run wild on so enormous a scale as the cardoon (Cynara cardunculus) in La Plata. [Please select]
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No cultivated plant has run wild on so enormous a scale as the cardoon (_Cynara cardunculus_) in La Plata. [Please select]
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The nest is usually built in a cardoon thistle, two or three feet above the ground, and is made of dry grass. [Please select]
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Sometimes they breed on the open plain in a large cardoon thistle, but a thick bush or low tree is preferred. [Please select]
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The nest was in a cardoon bush, and contained five eggs--two of the Yellow-breast and three parasitical. [Please select]
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This Spine-tail is resident, solitary, and extremely timid and stealthy in its movements, living always on the ground among the long grass and cardoon-thistles. [Please select]
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Under a cardoon-bush or tussock of grass it scoops out a slight hollow in the ground, and builds over this a dome of fine dry grass, leaving a small aperture arched like the door of a baker's oven. [Please select]
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The nest is always very cunningly concealed, and I have often spent days searching in a patch of cardoon-bushes where the birds were breeding without being able to find it. [Please select]
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