Amazing news if it pans out: this group thinks they’ve located the original plant that produced Silphium/laser —Rome’s long-lost spice that was thought to have been gathered to extinction during the reign of Nero in the first century CE.https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/10/1/102/htm …
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Feels like something
@BretDevereaux will write a 6-part about.
I do many things, but archaeobotany isn't one of them, so I suspect discussing this will be a job for someone else.
