The delicate creature in its prickly, thick-walled home suggests a tender flower in a thorny involucre.

在其多刺、厚壁的家中的精致生物让人联想到多刺总苞中的朵嫩花。

Its showy involucres attract a crowd of moths, butterflies, and other winged people about it for their own and, I suppose, the tree's advantage.

它艳丽的总苞群飞蛾、蝴蝶和其他长着翅膀的生物，它们是为它们自己的利益，而且我想，也是这棵树的优势。

By the end of this month, most of the species had ripened their seeds, but undecayed, still seemed to be in bloom from the numerous corolla-like involucres and whorls of chaffy scales of the composite.

到本月底，多数物种的种子都已经成熟， 但没有腐烂， 似乎仍在盛开着无数花冠状的总苞和复合体的糠秕鳞片。