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Personal logo piper909 Supporting Member of TMP07 Sep 2017 10:23 p.m. PST

An interesting BBC article on the Roman herb silphium, what it was, and where is it today?

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goragrad07 Sep 2017 11:36 p.m. PST

Interesting.

Cacique Caribe08 Sep 2017 1:56 a.m. PST

Wasn't there a special kind of lotus that went extinct for similar reasons?

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TKindred Supporting Member of TMP08 Sep 2017 7:11 a.m. PST

Interesting indeed.

wrgmr108 Sep 2017 6:37 p.m. PST

We have lots of Huckleberries here in the Pacific Northwest. It's interesting the picture of silphium looks a lot like Yarrow?

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