Posted on 08/17/2023 10:06:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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.
The plant, which the Ancient Greeks called silphion (silphium), was a golden-flowered plant. It was once the most sought-after product in the Mediterranean even before the rise of Athens and the Roman Empire.
It is believed that the plant with yellow flowers attached to a thick stalk was crushed, roasted, sauteed, and boiled for medicinal purposes, food, and even contraception. During the reign of Julius Caesar, more than a thousand pounds of the plant were stockpiled alongside gold in Rome's imperial treasures, and silphion saplings were valued at the same price as silver.
However, just seven centuries after the adored plant was first documented growing along the coast of Cyrenaica in what is now modern day Libya, silphion disappeared from the ancient Mediterranean world.
Roman chronicler Pliny the Elder in his Natural History claims that "just one stalk has been found" of the plant in the first century A.D., "and it has been given to Emperor Nero." This was the last documented account of the silphion.
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Tastes like chicken
I thought it was ‘PLANET!’
Can you smoke it?
Reminds me of cauliflower only yellow
Oh heck—I’ve been cutting down that stuff in my field for years thinking it was a noxious weed...Can I get money for it?
Athelas in Elvish.
I don’t know how many plants are still growing but the seeds are going to be very popular. Sounds like a money maker.
Thanks - sounds like a very ‘cool’, interesting plant. The more I delve into medicinal herbs/plants, the more impressed I am & convinced this is what was given to us by our Creator for healing.
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Queen Anne’s Lace is in the Carrot Family, “Daucus Carotta.”
you can eat the root of the QA’sLace. It tastes like......a.carrot.
Silphium is an ingredient in Parthian Chicken. I would love to have some to cook with. asafoetida is a substitute along with celery greens and lovage.
Queen Anne’s Lace is in the Carrot Family, “Daucus Carotta.”
you can eat the root of the QA’sLace. It tastes like......a.carrot.
Have to careful as Queen Anne Lace closely resembles water hemlock which is highly toxic The same thing used to execute Socrates
Amen to that! :)
The powder of this plant would cure madness.
Imagine{ If turned into a pill it could turn Liberals into Conservatives! One pill and they might come to their senses and put on the red MAGA Cap? Sneak some into the CNN offices and get a building full of Tucker Carlson’s.
Fiber hemp. Not dope.
THanks, looks interesting.
Where there’s one, there’s more than one.
And hopefully someone with some integrity will be in charge of propagating it.
Very interesting looking plant.
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