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Salo, Finland
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Title
Prickly Beauty
Artist
Veikko Suikkanen
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
Cirsium vulgare (spear thistle, bull thistle, or common thistle) is a species of the daisy genus Cirsium, native throughout most of Europe (north to 66°N, locally 68°N), Western Asia (east to the Yenisei Valley), and northwestern Africa (Atlas Mountains). It is also naturalised in North America, Africa, and Australia and is an invasive weed in some areas. It is the national flower of Scotland.
It is a tall biennial or short-lived monocarpic thistle, forming a rosette of leaves and a taproot up to 70 cm long in the first year, and a flowering stem 1–1.5 m tall in the second (rarely third or fourth) year. The stem is winged, with numerous longitudinal spine-tipped wings along its full length. The leaves are stoutly spined, grey-green, deeply lobed; the basal leaves up to 15–25 cm long, with smaller leaves on the upper part of the flower stem; the leaf lobes are spear-shaped (from which the English name derives). The inflorescence is 2.5–5 cm diameter, pink-purple, with all the florets of similar form (no division into disc and ray florets). The seeds are 5 mm long, with a downy pappus, which assists in wind dispersal. As in other species of Cirsium (but unlike species in the related genus Carduus), the pappus hairs are feathery with fine side hairs.
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July 16th, 2017
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Los Angeles, CA - United States
Absolutely stunning contrast of the sharp, prickly thistle against the soft imagery of a field of daisies. Beautiful capture of light as well as brilliant pink and purple of the thistle. L/F
Massillon, OH - United States
Very lovely capture of this beautiful prickly Thistle beauty against nice contrasting background of Daisies with nice bokeh. L
Bozeman, Mt - United States
Amazing isolation of incredible color against that lovely background. V/F
Oamaru, No - New Zealand
You have made this thistle look so beautiful in this lovely capture Veikko. I am afraid they are a weed down here but your image shows that they are a pretty weed.lol. L/F.
San Luis Obispo, CA - United States
Love the background that gradually pulls more into focus around the subject. Great photograph.
Titusville, FL - United States
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
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