Claude TrudelJan 20, 2025
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
On la croyait éteinte depuis 2 000 ans, cette plante miracle pourrait faire son grand retour

Le silphium, une plante aux nombreuses vertus aussi bien médicinales que gustatives, faisait fureur dans le bassin méditerranéen jusqu'à son extinction. 2 000 ans plus tard, un chercheur turc pense avoir enfin trouvé un survivant de la plante miracle.

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Reverend ErikAug 25, 2024
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/
Miracle Plant Used in Ancient Greece Rediscovered After 2,000 Years - GreekReporter.com

Ancient Greeks used a 'miracle' plant called Silphium, which was thought to have gone extinct 2,000 years ago, has now been rediscovered.

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Show threadJens NotroffSep 14, 2023
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. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Show threadJens NotroffSep 14, 2023

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

Jens NotroffSep 12, 2023

"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

Miracle Plant Used in Ancient Greece Rediscovered After 2,000 Years

Ancient Greeks used a 'miracle' plant called Silphium, which was thought to have gone extinct 2,000 years ago, has now been rediscovered.

GreekReporter.com
lenahallesaaleAug 22, 2023
"This miracle plant was eaten into extinction 2,000 years ago—or was it?" #Feruladrudeana #silphium
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@[email protected] The original article, from which this was poorly plagiarized, is here at National Geographic Magazine: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/miracle-plant-eaten-extinction-2000-years-ago-silphion

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TheArchaeologistAug 21, 2023

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/

Miracle Plant Used in Ancient Greece Rediscovered After 2,000 Years

Ancient Greeks used a 'miracle' plant called Silphium, which was thought to have gone extinct 2,000 years ago, has now been rediscovered.

GreekReporter.com
FBToastAug 14, 2023
#Silphium classical miracle plant not extinct?
https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/13/plant-ancient-greece-rediscovered/
Miracle Plant Used in Ancient Greece Rediscovered After 2,000 Years

Ancient Greeks used a 'miracle' plant called Silphium, which was thought to have gone extinct 2,000 years ago, has now been rediscovered.

GreekReporter.com
World History EncyclopediaJul 12, 2023
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/
Theophrastus and Pliny the Elder on Silphium

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...

World History Encyclopedia
World History EncyclopediaJul 11, 2023
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

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...

World History Encyclopedia