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People keep making guesses about the ancient plant. Hard to prove, without anything but an image on a coin.
by JoeAltmaier 3y ago
People keep making guesses about the ancient plant. Hard to prove, without anything but an image on a coin.
- andrewflnr 3y agoMy dude, the article lists at least half a dozen lines of evidence from a variety of ancient descriptions.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoYou still understand my point, right? So many, many plants resemble other plants even today. And re-reading the article, that claim seems just plain false. Some 'medicinal' properties are cited, which is no kind of evidence. No half-dozen descriptions are cited that I could find. The capper is, after explaining how it couldn't be cultivated or transplanted despite repeated efforts, the OP claims it was found hundreds of miles away because, you guessed it, the Greeks transplanted and cultivated it there. No, this is more a Greek tourism board ad, than science.
- andrewflnr 3y agoNo, I've read a lot of plant descriptions, and the ones they cite are enough to narrow the field quite a bit. I'll grant the part about transporting it is a little stretched, but not enough to dismiss it. The article makes clear that while it was tricky, it wasn't impossible, and some people succeeded in moving the plants around. It's also possible that they could have just brought some seeds and tossed them around the country side, a pretty obvious gambit if you've got a plant that doesn't want to be cultivated. And the discovery was in Turkey, not Greece, so I don't think the Greek tourism board is behind it.