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Cirsium tuberosum (L.) All. (Tuberous Thistle)

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Gibbons, B., 2002, Tuberous Thistle, British Wildlife, Volume 13, No 5: 339 (Colour photograph) Tuberous Thistle

Cirsium tuberosum may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae)
Cardueae
(“thistles”)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Cirsium tuberosum:

is foodplant of larva Terellia serratulae - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
capitulum capitulum may contain larva Chaetostomella cylindrica - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign White, I.M., 1988
Photos capitulum capitulum may contain larva Tephritis hyoscyami - a gall fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Foreign Rare White, I.M., 1988

Cirsium tuberosum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ASTERACEAE
(daisies, dandelions and thistles - formerly Compositae)
Cirsium
(a genus of thistles)

References

White, I.M., 1988 Tephritid Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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