Thanks 😊 I was also used to thistles with higher stems, and as I wrote in the post, at first I thought it was a cactus 😉, but it turned out that it was a thistle. Travel teaches, for me it is valuable to discover new plants, different from those I know.
RE: Pine Thistle (Carlina gummifera) and sheep on the island of Crete / Fioletowy oset i owce