Thistle

Pastel purple of the prickly flower that blooms in Scottish fields.

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Thistle is a pale grey, close to pink.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and unsaturated.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Thistle

Thistle is the popular name of a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp spikes on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae. Prickles can also occur all over the plant – on the stem, and on the flat parts of the leaves. These prickles protect the plant from herbivores. Typically, an involucre with a clasping shape, similar to a cup or urn, subtends each of a thistle's flower heads. The typically feathery pappus of a ripe thistle flower is known as thistle-down.

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