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Cardoon

Cardoon
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Plants in bloom, Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina Natural Park, Portugal
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Cynareae
Genus: Cynara
Species: C. cardunculus
Binomial name
Cynara cardunculus
L.
Synonyms
  • Carduus cardunculus (L.) Baill.
  • Carduus cynara E.H.L.Krause
  • Carduus scolymus Baill.
  • Cnicus communis Lam.
  • Cynara communis Lam.
  • Cynara corsica Viv.
  • Cynara esculenta Salisb.
  • Cynara ferox Ten. ex Steud.
  • Cynara horrida Aiton
  • Cynara hortensis Mill.
  • Cynara spinosissima J.Presl & C.Presl
  • Cynara sylvestris Lam.
Cardoon, raw
Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy 71 kJ (17 kcal)
4.07 g
Dietary fiber 1.6 g
0.1 g
0.7 g
Vitamins
Thiamine (B1)
(2%)
0.02 mg
Riboflavin (B2)
(3%)
0.03 mg
Niacin (B3)
(2%)
0.3 mg
Pantothenic acid (B5)
(7%)
0.338 mg
Vitamin B6
(9%)
0.116 mg
Folate (B9)
(17%)
68 μg
Vitamin C
(2%)
2 mg
Minerals
Calcium
(7%)
70 mg
Iron
(5%)
0.7 mg
Magnesium
(12%)
42 mg
Manganese
(12%)
0.256 mg
Phosphorus
(3%)
23 mg
Potassium
(9%)
400 mg
Sodium
(11%)
170 mg
Zinc
(2%)
0.17 mg

Percentages are roughly approximated using US recommendations for adults.
Source: USDA Nutrient Database

The cardoon (Cynara cardunculus), also called the artichoke thistle, cardone, cardoni, carduni, or cardi, is a thistle-like plant in the sunflower family. It is a naturally occurring species that includes the globe artichoke, and has many cultivated forms. It is native to the western and central Mediterranean region, where it was domesticated in ancient times.

The wild cardoon is a stout herbaceous perennial plant growing 0.8 to 1.5 m (31 to 59 in) tall, with deeply lobed and heavily spined green to grey-green tomentose (hairy or downy) leaves up to 50 cm (20 in) long, with yellow spines up to 3.5 cm long. The flowers are violet-purple, produced in a large, globose, massively spined capitulum up to 6 cm (2 in) in diameter.

It is adapted to dry climates, native across an area from Morocco and Portugal east to Libya and Greece and north to France and Croatia; it may also be native on Cyprus, the Canary Islands and Madeira. In France, it only occurs wild in the Mediterranean south (Gard, Hérault, Aude, Pyrénées-Orientales, Corsica). It has become an invasive weed in the pampas of Argentina, and is also considered a weed in Australia and California.


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