Eryngium maritimum is a perennial plant native to Europe and often found on sea shores.

Among the best known of these is Eryngium bourgatii ( illustrated ), a perennial with stunning green, prickly foliage marbled with silver.

Eryngium foetidum is a culinary herb used widely in Latin America and Southeast Asia.

It should not be confused with culantro ( Eryngium foetidum L .) which is a close relative to coriander ( Coriandrum sativum L .) but has a distinctly different appearance, a much more potent volatile leaf oil and a stronger smell.

* Hobbit, also Blue Hobbit, is a common name of the plant Eryngium planum

The Sea holly ( Eryngium maritimum ) is a species of Eryngium in the plant family Apiaceae and native to most European coastlines.

Eryngium alpinum ( Alpine Sea Holly or Queen of the Alps ) is a herbaceous perennial plant of Eryngium genus, belonging to the Apiaceae family.

The genus name ( Eryngium ) is probably derived from the Greek " erungion ", a word that recalls the hedgehog.

The biological form of Eryngium alpinum is hemicryptophyte scapose, as its overwintering buds are situated just below the soil surface and the floral axis is more or less erect with a few leaves.

Other commonly grown ornamental species include Eryngium alpinum, E. variifolium, E. tripartitum, E. bromeliifolium, and the biennial E. giganteum.

Many species of Eryngium have a history of use.

Among the green leafy vegetables that are usually eaten raw in the meal or as a side dish in Thailand, the most important are: Phak bung ( morning-glory ), hōrapha ( Thai basil ), bai bua bok ( Asian pennywort ), phak kachēt ( water mimosa ), phak kat khao ( Chinese cabbage ), kra thin Thai ( ipil-ipil ), phak phai ( Praew leaves ), phak kayang ( Rice Paddy Herb ), phak chī farang ( Eryngium foetidum ), phak tiu ( Cratoxylum formosum ), phak " phaai " ( Yellow Burr Head ) and kalampī ( cabbage ).

), celery ( Apium graveolens ), arracacha ( Arracacia xanthorrhiza ), poison hemlock ( Conium maculatum ), sea holly ( Eryngium spp.

The roots, such as of Eryngium yuccifolium and Eryngium maritimum, are potent inflammation modulators and may have other properties.

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Image: Eryngium maritimum 2. jpg | Flowers, Meia Praia beach, Lagos, Portugal

Image: Eryngium maritimum 1. jpg | Whole plant, Meia Praia beach, Lagos, Portugal

The larvae feed on Diplotaxis pendula, Succowia balearica, Moricandia arvensis, Eruca vesicaria, Cleome arabica, Reseda villosa, Eryngium tenue and Diplotaxis acris.

Larval host plants in Europe are Eryngium, Lotus, Coronilla, Medicago, Hippocrepis etc.

The aardvark is not closely related to the pig ; rather, it is the sole recent representative of the obscure mammalian order Tubulidentata, in which it is usually considered to form one variable species of the genus Orycteropus, the sole surviving genus in the family Orycteropodidae.

Thelymitra is an example of a genus where the lower petal is similar in appearance to the other petals.

Blandfordia is the only genus in the family Blandfordiaceae, with four species distributed in eastern Australia.

The genus Cyanastrum is sometimes placed in its own family Cyanastraceae.

The most conspicuous genus in the family is Aloe.

Agapanthus, native to South Africa, is the sole genus of the subfamily.

For example, Pyrethrum ( refers to several Old World plants of the genus Chrysanthemum ) is a natural insecticide with minimal environmental impact.

Wormwood, a genus that includes the sagebrush, is used as a source of flavoring for absinthe, a bitter classical liquor of European origin.

The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, Allium.

Allieae contains only one genus Allium ( Milula is merged with Allium in the latest systems ).

The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".

The name is derived from the type genus Apium, which was originally used by Pliny the Elder circa 50 AD for a celery-like plant.

Within the genus Prunus, it is classified with the peach in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated shell ( endocarp ) surrounding the seed.

Ardipithecus is a fossil hominoid, described by its discoverers as a very early hominin genus.

Albertosaurus (; meaning " Alberta lizard ") is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 70 million years ago.

The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which the genus is named.

In Central and South America, the alligator family is represented by five species of the genus Caiman, which differs from the alligator by the absence of a bony septum between the nostrils, and the ventral armour is composed of overlapping bony scutes, each of which is formed of two parts united by a suture.

`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.

We consider a rural community as an assemblage of inhabited dwellings whose configuration is determined by the location and size of the arable land sites necessary for family subsistence.

Engaged as it is in a battle for world trade as a condition of national survival, this country can have little patience with labor's family feuds.

There is little doubt if they had a secret ballot, they would vote for food for their family, in place of ideological purity out on the farm.

The family is largely broken up ; ;

For it is the family that, in China, has always provided social security for the indigent, the sick, the down-and-out members of the clan.

Part of the family should be sleeping while the rest is awake.

The Peace Corps should not pay the expenses of a wife or family, unless the wife is also accepted for full-time Peace Corps work on the same project.

Arriving at the waterside, the boat is launched, the family taken aboard and, that easily, another day afloat is begun.

This one was set up here in 390 A.D. on a pedestal, the faces of which are carved with statues of the emperor and his family watching games in the Hippodrome, done so realistically that the obelisk itself is included in them.

Hotei is 23 feet long with an 8-1/2-foot beam and every inch a family boat.

First and foremost: No one -- no, not anyone -- in the family is allowed to issue blanket invitations to his or her own circle.

Follow pool-care instructions to the letter, and be sure that one person ( in the family or not ) is regularly responsible for each aspect of the job, with no chance for claiming, `` It wasn't my turn ''.

They come prepared for family fun because Americans in ever-growing numbers are learning that here is the way to a fine economical vacation that becomes a family experience of lasting importance.

Camping is family fun, and it is helping more Americans see more of the country than they ever saw before.

When a family buys a home the title is subject to a perpetual easement to Tri-State.

In one cartoon a family is shown outside a theater with the head of the family addressing the doorman: `` Excuse me, but when we came out we found that we had left my daughter's handbag and my wife's behind ''.

It is presumed to occur in other members of the Brassica family.

A family of five plans to go together either to the beach or to the mountains, and a coin is tossed to decide.

When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.