The artichoke is a variety of a species of thistle cultivated as food, its edible portion the flower buds harvested before the flowers come into bloom; the budding flower head is a cluster of many small budding flowers together with many bracts on an edible base, and once the buds open the structure becomes coarse and barely edible. Another variety of the same species is the cardoon, a perennial plant native to the Mediterranean region, and both wild and cultivated forms of the artichoke exist.
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Earliest Documented Use, From (Year)This source dates the wild cardoon ancestor as a garden plant, not a distinctly cultivated artichoke; no more precise earliest year for the artichoke itself is given in this source. Origin Region Connections
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Cultivation, Early history section
The artichoke is a domesticated variety of the wild cardoon (Cynara cardunculus), which is native to the Mediterranean area.
Cultivation, Early history section [earliest-use-start-year]
The cardoon is mentioned as a garden plant in the eighth century BC by Homer and Hesiod.
Cultivation, Early history section [earliest-use-end-year]
The cardoon is mentioned as a garden plant in the eighth century BC by Homer and Hesiod.
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