Thistle and Velcro: Wednesday W38Y

Thistles are those prickly plants with spikes on the edges of the leaves, and often elsewhere. They can be quite firm and sharp, or soft and hardly painful at all. Often, thistles will stick to clothes--some species have hook like ends. Thistles botanically fall into the family Asteraceae, which along with many plants with the word thistle in their name, includes burdock and artichoke! [Fun fact: burdock thistle was the inspiration for Velcro! A Swiss inventor, Georges de Mestral, after […]

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