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Ancient Greek Medicinal Plant, Believed Extinct, Purportedly Rediscovered
- jamiek88 3y agoAh the biannual ‘we’ve found silphium’ Several people have stumbled upon Ferula Drudeana in Turkey and remarked upon the similarities. It was a plant that could not be cultivated with ancient methods. This is the third independent discovery I can remember in the last decade.
- EA-3167 3y ago> Ah the biannual ‘we’ve found silphium’ It's worse than that, this is a Greek paper picking up the news from 2021 out of a Turkish university.
- salad-tycoon 3y agoLooks like Greek paper is a report on National Geographic’s article which is also more detailed and interesting than the Greek one. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/miracle-plant-eaten-extinction-2000-years-ago-silphion https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/miracle-p...
- _ezel 3y agoAh gotcha, that's quite amusing. I wouldn't have submitted it if I'd had that context, this is my first time paying attention to the Silphium news cycle, but so it goes.
- ProjectArcturis 3y agoFrom silphium wiki: "Theophrastus wrote in Enquiry into Plants that the type of Ferula specifically referred to as "silphium" was odd in that it could not be cultivated."