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      "scientific_name": "Cynara algarbiensis",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cynara-algarbiensis/"
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Cynara auranitica",
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      "scientific_name": "Cynara aurantiaca",
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      "wfo": "wfo-0000022166",
      "slug": "cynara-aurantiaca",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Cynara baetica",
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      "slug": "cynara-baetica",
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      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
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      "scientific_name": "Cynara cardunculus",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000013358",
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      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cynara-cardunculus/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cynara cornigera",
      "authorship": "Lindl.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000070364",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cynara-cornigera/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cynara cyrenaica",
      "authorship": "Maire & Weiller",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000104086",
      "slug": "cynara-cyrenaica",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cynara gomerensis",
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      "wfo": "wfo-1000040392",
      "slug": "cynara-gomerensis",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cynara humilis",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000068562",
      "slug": "cynara-humilis",
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      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cynara-humilis/"
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cynara scolymus",
      "authorship": "L.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000131895",
      "slug": "cynara-scolymus",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cynara syriaca",
      "authorship": "Boiss.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000063227",
      "slug": "cynara-syriaca",
      "photographs_found": 0,
      "documented": false,
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "scientific_name": "Cynara tournefortii",
      "authorship": "Boiss. & Reut.",
      "wfo": "wfo-0000069605",
      "slug": "cynara-tournefortii",
      "photographs_found": 9,
      "documented": true,
      "url": "https://botanai.app/plants/cynara-tournefortii/"
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  "evidence_gate": {
    "rule": "at least 3 photographs licensed for commercial use",
    "rationale": "This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species below the gate is listed here rather than given a page of its own."
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "World Flora Online Plant List",
      "note": "accepted names, authorities, classification",
      "license": "CC0",
      "url": "https://www.worldfloraonline.org/",
      "retrieved": "2026-07-12"
    }
  ],
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    "attribution": "BotanAI, https://botanai.app/genus/cynara/"
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}