🔴 The milk thistle's spines keep most livestock from grazing on the leaves. A good thing, because the potassium nitrate found in the plant can be toxic to cud-chewing ruminants like cattle and sheep.
🔴 The thistle is an ancient Celtic symbol and, according to the language of flowers, stands for nobility of character.
🔴 Thistles feature in the works of many writers, including poets Ted Hughes and Hugh McDiarmid, and fiction authors Leo Tolstoy and A. A. Milne - in Winnie the Pooh, thistles were Eeyore the donkey's favourite food.
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