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Carthamus tinctorius L. Asteraceae

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Ethnobotany of the Caucasus

Part of the book series: European Ethnobotany ((EUROETH))

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Synonyms

Carthamus glaber Burm. f.; Carduus tinctorius Ehrh.; Centaurea carthamus E. H. L. Krause

Local Names

Azerbaijan: Bоyаq ulахqаnqаlı; English: Coating safflower.

Botany and Ecology

An erect annual herb to 1 m tall. Stems have ridges, and are glabrous and white. Leaves rough textured, sessile, somewhat clasping stem and oval to linear-shaped with spiny teeth along margin. Flower heads 2.5 m in diameter, solitary the color vermillion to orange-yellow. Involucral bracts large and leaf-like, but shorter than florets with broad bases, outer bracts usually curved and inner bracts usually somewhat spiny. Fruits are achenes, 4 angled with blunt tips, usually bearing no pappus but sometimes with short bristles attached. Mainly in cultivation though rarely naturalized, but widely cultivated in Caucasus, also present in Central to west Asia and northeastern Africa. Flowers and fruits from June to July. Carthamus tinctoriusconstitutes one of humanity’s oldest crops. Traditionally, this...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Botany, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Naiba P. Mehdiyeva, Valida M. Alizade & Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana

  2. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, 299, St. Louis, MO, 63166-0299, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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  1. Naiba P. Mehdiyeva
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Correspondence to Rainer W. Bussmann .

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  1. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Mehdiyeva, N.P., Alizade, V.M., Zambrana, N.Y.P., Bussmann, R.W. (2017). Carthamus tinctorius L. Asteraceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_125

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