"The first recorded instance of the extinction of a plant species through
human intervention is that of the Libyan silphium, the last stalk of which was believed to have been presented to the emperor Nero in the first century CE. It took the concerted work of antiquaries and botanists to unravel just what had happened."
Peter Mason, "Botanists and Antiquaries in the Garden of the Hesperides.
https://parergon.org/index.php/parergon/issue/view/31
#histnat #histplantes #histsci #histbota
human intervention is that of the Libyan silphium, the last stalk of which was believed to have been presented to the emperor Nero in the first century CE. It took the concerted work of antiquaries and botanists to unravel just what had happened."
Peter Mason, "Botanists and Antiquaries in the Garden of the Hesperides.
https://parergon.org/index.php/parergon/issue/view/31
#histnat #histplantes #histsci #histbota