Atrichoke

Name of Flower: Atrichoke
Botanical Name: Cynara cardunculus
The edible matter is buds that form within the flower heads before the flowers come into bloom. The buds go away or change to a coarse, barely edible form when the flower blooms. The globe artichoke is a variety of a species of cultivated as a food.
The flowers develop in a large head from an edible bud about 8–15 cm (3.1–5.9 in) diameter with numerous triangular scales. It grows to glucose-green laves 50–82 cm (20–32 in) long 1.4–2 m (4.6–6. The mass of immature florets in the center of the bud is called the "choke" or beard. 6 fit) tall, deeply lobed, with arching, silvery.
In North Africa, where they are still found in the wild state, the seeds of artichokes, probably cultivated, were found during the excavation of Roman-period Mons claudianus in Egypt. In that period the Greeks ate the leaves and flower heads, which cultivation had already improved from the wild form. The Romans called the vegetable carduus (whence the name cardoon).
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 appears as a new arrival with a new name, which may be taken to indicate an arrival of an improved cultivated variety.