Férule de Drude (Ferula drudeana)
🔸 On la croyait éteinte depuis 2 000 ans, cette plante miracle pourrait faire son grand retour.
🔸 Sous le règne de Jules César, plus de 450 kg de cette plante étaient stockés tout près des réserves d’or, dans les trésors impériaux de Rome, et les jeunes plants de silphium avaient la même valeur monétaire que l’argent.
https://www.nationalgeographic.fr/histoire/2022/09/on-la-croyait-eteinte-depuis-2-000-ans-cette-plante-miracle-pourrait-faire-son-grand-retour
#science #nature #botanique #plante #Turquie #silphium #férule #espèce #Antiquité #Drude

Has silphium really been rediscovered? It's been lost for nearly 2,000 years! If it has been rediscovered, when can we get some??? #food #history #silphium https://greekreporter.com/2024/07/31/plant-ancient-greece-rediscovered/

We do, fwiw, however have (next to those descriptions by Herodotus, Pausanias, Theophrastus, Pliny, and the like) at least these #silphium depictions on #Cyrenian coins. 🤷🏻‍♂️

To be taken with the mandatory grain of salt, of course - lacking (afaik) any corresponding archaeobotanical #silphium finds makes an exact identification not particularly easier …

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/miracle-plant-eaten-extinction-2000-years-ago-silphion

"Just one stalk has been found and it has been given to Emperor Nero", Pliny the Elder put down the last documented account of the #silphium.

Thought to be extinct, the golden-flowered "miracle" plant apparently has been rediscovered in #Turkey:

https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/13/plant-ancient-greece-rediscovered via #GreekReporter

"This miracle plant was eaten into extinction 2,000 years ago—or was it?" #Feruladrudeana #silphium
https://vis.social/@wcbdata/110930165569376806

The “miracle” plant #Silphium consumed by Ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, which was thought to have become extinct two thousand years ago, has recently been rediscovered in Turkey by a professor, who thinks he’s found a botanical survivor.

https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/13/plant-ancient-greece-rediscovered/

#Silphium classical miracle plant not extinct?
https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/13/plant-ancient-greece-rediscovered/

The silphium plant of Cyrene, valued as a seasoning, aromatic, and for its medicinal properties, is referenced by several notable ancient writers, but two of the best-known descriptions come from Theophrastus (l. c. 371 to c. 287 BCE) and Pliny the Elder (l. 23-79 CE). By Pliny's time, silphium was extinct, most likely due to overharvesting and overgrazing. #History #Silphium #PlinyTheElder #Theophrastus #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2252/theophrastus-and-pliny-the-elder-on-silphium/

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

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. 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/

Prairie things.

#ascelpias #dalea #silphium #heliopsis

#Wisconsin #native #horticulture #prairie

The 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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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium

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