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The Ruby Red and Blue Posy is striking.  Its vibrant colours will ensure this funeral tribute will ‘stand out from the crowd’.  The ‘choice’ flowers are the large headed Red Roses and Blue Thistle, however the collection of Lilac Limonium, White and Purple Lisianthus, Green Hypericum Berries and Green Skimea still hold their own in this lovely posy.  The tribute is completed with fresh Eucalyptus, Ruscus and structural Steel Grass.

Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterized by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae. Prickles often occur all over the plant – on surfaces such as those of the stem and flat parts of leaves. These are an adaptation that protects the plant against herbivorous animals, discouraging them from feeding on the plant. Typically, an involucre with a clasping shape of a cup or urn subtends each of a thistle’s flowerheads.

The term thistle is sometimes taken to mean exactly those plants in the tribe Cynareae (synonym: Cardueae), especially the genera Carduus, Cirsium, and Onopordum. However, plants outside this tribe are sometimes called thistles, and if this is done thistles would form a polyphyletic group.

Thistle is the floral emblem of Scotland, as well as the emblem of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.