Artichoke 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, the structure changes to a coarse, barely edible form. Another variety of the same species is the cardoon, a perennial plant native to the Mediterranean region. Both wild forms and cultivated varieties (cultivars) exist. This vegetable grows
Jacobian variety need not be isomorphic to the Picard variety. Jacobian variety In mathematics, the Jacobian variety "J(C)" of a non-singular algebraic curve "C" of genus "g" is the moduli space of degree 0 line bundles. It is the connected component of the identity in the Picard group of "C", hence an abelian variety. The Jacobian variety is named after Carl Gustav Jacobi, who proved the complete version Abel-Jacobi theorem, making the injectivity statement of Niels Abel into an isomorphism. It is a principally polarized abelian variety, of dimension "g", and hence, over the complex numbers, it is a complex torus. If