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Asteraceae/Compositae
Milk thistle: The white-veined thistle of the Mediterranean
Galactites tomentosus Moench
Γαλακτίτης ο εριώδης
Συνώνυμα: Galactites elegans Nyman
Centaurea galactites L
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Mastic tree
Carlina gummifera (L.) Less.Syn. Atractylis gummifera L.Asteraceae/CompositaeAtractylis the compomiphorusThe genus Carlina includes about 20 species of typical thorns of the genus...
Wild artichoke
Cynara cornigera Lindl. Syn. Cynara sibthorpiana Boiss.&Heldr. Wild artichoke, Mountain artichoke This perennial plant is a distant relative of the domestic artichoke (Cynara...
Centaurs of Kythira
centaurea cythereaCentaurea redempta subsp. cytherea (Rech.f.) Routsi & T. Georgiadi
The plant was originally identified in the 1960s by the German...
Ptilostomine the chameleon
Ptilostemon chamaepeuce (L.) Less.Evergreen shrub common throughout the eastern Mediterranean, on cliffs, rocky sites, near the sea. The characteristic...