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Eryngium maritimum
The sea holly or seaside eryngo. It grows on coastal dunes. Because of its extensive root system can block the movement of sand, stabilizing it, thus contributing to the development of colonization plant.[1]
The steppe zone of the Black Sea near Anapa (autumn)
"Sinegolovnik seaside - evil plant; his strong, broad, gray-blue leaves, spreading over the sand, bristled at the edges - not even the spines - sharp and durable two-centimetric spears - on this plant isn't go, even if you want! Colorful lizard use protection cruel needles feverweed quite purposefully. Instinct whether to prompts to run to the shelter of prickly webs or bitter experience, but fleeing lizard will not seek shelter under bushes lyme grass or wormwood, she threw herself directly under the leaves feverweed and will be there to look attentive black eyes on a seagull, which will run side by side without risking turn up in thorns."[2] The pictures were taken on Kodak film, then digitized
Spotted on Oct 7, 2005
Submitted on Dec 7, 2015
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