great burdock

Greater Burdock is rather tall, reaching as much as 2 metres.

The economy is primarily agricultural, with rice, chives, onions, and greater burdock as major crops.

Arctigenin is a lignan found in certain plants of the Asteraceae, including the greater burdock (Arctium lappa) and Saussurea heteromalla.

The leaves of Greater Burdock provide food for the caterpillars of some Lepidoptera, such as the Thistle Ermine (Myelois circumvoluta).

The caterpillars feed on Cynareae thistles - Greater Burdock (Arctium lappa), Cotton Thistle (Onopordum acanthium), and Carduus and Cirsium species.

In the midst of the sunshine there lay an old farm, with deep canals about it, and from the wall down to the water grew great burdocks, so high that little children could stand upright under the loftiest of them.

Tekka is the name for a certain miso-condiment that consists of a number of root vegetables (Greater Burdock roots, carrots, Ginger root, and Lotus root) which have been stir-fried and boiled to a concentrated powder.

The ingredients for making bugak are kombu, gim (Korean laver), perilla leaves, chili pepper leaves, ueong (우엉, greater burdock leaves), shoots of Ailanthus altissima, camellia leaves, chrysanthemum leaves, sliced potato and so forth.

Arctium lappa, commonly called greater burdock, gobō,edible burdock, lappa, or beggar's buttons, is a biennial plant of the Arctium (burdock) genus in the Asteraceae family, cultivated in gardens for its root used as a vegetable.

The wheat was yellow, the oats were green, the hay was dry and delicious to roll in, and from the old ruined house which nobody lived in, down to the edge of the canal, was a forest of great burdocks, so tall that a whole family of children might have dwelt in them and never have been found out.