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

在其多刺、厚壁家中精致生物让人联想到多刺总苞中一朵嫩花。

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.

它艳丽总苞吸引一大飞蛾、蝴蝶和其他长着翅膀生物，它们是为它们自己利益，而且我想，也是这棵树优势。

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，大多数物种种子都已经成熟， 但没有腐烂， 似乎仍在盛开着无数花冠状总苞和复合体糠秕鳞片。