The cotton thistle is a large plant, up to three meters tall and about half that in width. A biennial plant, its spiny leaves are 10 to 50 cm wide, covered with white hairs that give the plant the common name cotton thistle.. They have long, stiff spines the length of the margins. The flowers are round and range in color from pink to lavender. The thistle flowers from July to September.
(February 2009) Impromptu speaking is a speech and debate individual event that involves a five- to eight-minute speech with a characteristically short preparation time of one to seven minutes.
Wingate (1984): Disruption in the fluency of verbal expression that is characterized by involuntary audible or silent repetitions or prolongations in the utterance of short speech elements, namely: sounds, syllables, and words of one syllable.