Artichoke economically important genes from related species. Rezazadeh, A., Ghasemnezhad, A., Barani, M., & Telmadarrehei, T. (2012). Effect of Salinity on Phenolic Composition and Antioxidant Activity of Artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) Leaves. Research Journal of Medicinal Plant, 6(3). Artichoke The globe artichoke ("Cynara cardunculus" var. "scolymus") is a variety of a species of thistle cultivated as a food. The edible portion of the plant consists of the flower buds before the flowers come into bloom. The budding artichoke flower-head is a cluster of many budding small flowers (an inflorescence), together with many bracts, on an edible base. Once the buds bloom,
Artichoke evidence is inferential only. Names for the artichoke in English and many other European languages today (e.g. Spanish "alcachofa", French "artichaut") come from medieval Arabic الخرشوف "al-ḫaršūf" ("not" from modern Levantine Arabic أرضي شوكي "arḍī šawkī", which derives from folk-etymological reinterpretation of one or more of the European names.) Le Roy Ladurie, in his book "Les Paysans de Languedoc", has documented the spread of artichoke cultivation in Italy and southern France in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, when the artichoke appeared as a new arrival with a new name, which may be taken to indicate an arrival of