Acanthus spinosus - Unknown
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Internal ID UUID644006a648964210826275
Scientific name Acanthus spinosus
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl. : 639 (1753)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Acanthus spinosissimus Desf. Tabl. Hort. Par. 51.
Acanthus spinulosus Host Fl. Austriaca 2: 217 (1831)

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Language Common/alternative name
English bear's breeches
English spine acanthus
Arabic أقنثة سورية
Bulgarian Бодлив страшник
Czech paznehtník ostnitý
Welsh troed-yr-arth pigog
German dorniger akanthus
Finnish piikkiakantti
French acanthe épineuse
Kabyle awecmim
Polish akant kłujący
Chinese 刺老鼠簕

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Sow seeds directly at 4°C.
Requires Soaking: These seeds need to be soaked in warm water until they swell, which can take 24-48 hours. Seeds that float are usually not viable and should be discarded, along with the soaking water.

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  • Europe
    • Northern Europe
      • Great Britain
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Albania
      • Bulgaria
      • Greece
      • Italy
      • Kriti
      • Yugoslavia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000513891
USDA Plants ACSP7
Tropicos 50098024
INPN 79723
Flora of Italy 5071
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:44920-1
The Plant List kew-2615301
Missouri Botanical Garden 291709
Open Tree Of Life 444250
NCBI Taxonomy 101744
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0000014907
IPNI 44920-1
iNaturalist 336264
iNaturalist 336263
GBIF 5415453
Freebase /m/0q5h243
EPPO ACUSP
EOL 483779
Elurikkus 535163
USDA GRIN 100694
Wikipedia Acanthus_spinosus

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Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
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From Biodiversity to Musketry: Detection of Plant Diversity in Pre-Industrial Peloponnese during the Flora Graeca Expedition Chimona C, Papadopoulou S, Kolyva F, Mina M, Rhizopoulou S Life (Basel) 23-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9785030
doi:10.3390/life12121957
PMID:36556322
Local knowledge about sustainable harvesting and availability of wild medicinal plant species in Lemnos island, Greece Papageorgiou D, Bebeli PJ, Panitsa M, Schunko C J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 19-Jun-2020
PMCID:PMC7304145
doi:10.1186/s13002-020-00390-4
PMID:32560660
Should DNA sequence be incorporated with other taxonomical data for routine identifying of plant species? Suesatpanit T, Osathanunkul K, Madesis P, Osathanunkul M BMC Complement Altern Med 31-Aug-2017
PMCID:PMC5580213
doi:10.1186/s12906-017-1937-3
PMID:28859638
The bear in Eurasian plant names: motivations and models Kolosova V, Svanberg I, Kalle R, Strecker L, Özkan AM, Pieroni A, Cianfaglione K, Molnár Z, Papp N, Łuczaj Ł, Dimitrova D, Šeškauskaitė D, Roper J, Hajdari A, Sõukand R J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 21-Feb-2017
PMCID:PMC5320662
doi:10.1186/s13002-016-0132-9
PMID:28222790
Cercosporoid fungi (Mycosphaerellaceae) 4. Species on dicots (Acanthaceae to Amaranthaceae) Braun U, Crous PW, Nakashima C IMA Fungus 10-Nov-2015
PMCID:PMC4681261
doi:10.5598/imafungus.2015.06.02.09
PMID:26734548
A history of the gardens of the Royal College of Physicians of London Hollman A Clin Med (Lond) 01-Jun-2009
PMCID:PMC4953611
doi:10.7861/clinmedicine.9-3-242
PMID:19634387
Do we Underestimate the Importance of Leaf Size in Plant Economics? Disproportional Scaling of Support Costs Within the Spectrum of Leaf Physiognomy Niinemets Ü, Portsmuth A, Tena D, Tobias M, Matesanz S, Valladares F Ann Bot 22-Jun-2007
PMCID:PMC2735320
doi:10.1093/aob/mcm107
PMID:17586597

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