lenahallesaale · @lenahallesaale
248 followers · 692 posts · Server mastodon.green"This miracle plant was eaten into extinction 2,000 years ago—or was it?" #Feruladrudeana #silphium
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FBToast · @fbtoast
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#Silphium classical miracle plant not extinct?
https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/13/plant-ancient-greece-rediscovered/
World History Encyclopedia · @whencyclopedia
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Silphium (also known as laser) was an uncultivated plant that grew in Cyrene, North Africa (modern Shahhat, Libya) and became the cash crop of the region of Cyrenaica between c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Silphium/ #History #Cyrene #Silphium
World History Encyclopedia · @whencyclopedia
1105 followers · 1996 posts · Server mstdn.socialSilphium (also known as laser) was an uncultivated plant that grew in Cyrene, North Africa (modern Shahhat, Libya) and became the cash crop of the region of Cyrenaica between c. 631 BCE and the 1st century CE when, according to Pliny the Elder, it had become extinct. #History #Silphium #Cyrene #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Silphium/
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alternifolia · @alternifolia
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#ascelpias #dalea #silphium #heliopsis #wisconsin #native #horticulture #prairie
Matthew Fells · @matthew_fells
33 followers · 268 posts · Server mastodon.socialPlants | Free Full-Text | Next Chapter in the Legend of Silphion: Preliminary Morphological, Chemical, Biological and Pharmacological Evaluations, Initial Conservation Studies, and Reassessment of the Regional Extinction Event
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#silphium #extinctplants #ancientrome
Dr. Orna Izakson ND, RH(AHG) · @DrOrna
498 followers · 402 posts · Server newsie.socialThe trick, of course, is to not decimate the library while searching for a single best seller. Humans have a bad track record of that going back millennia. (See #Silphium.)
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