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CYNARA HYSTRIX

Name: CYNARA HYSTRIX
Brand: Cotswold Garden Flowers
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Dramatic narrow spiny leaves violet-blue flowers with purplish bracts Jul-Aug, 1m. Sun, good dry soil, leaves go early. Syn.C.baetica subsp.maroccana.

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