Geoffrey Miller Retweeted Paul 🌹 📚 Cooper
Beautiful illustrated thread about the ancient Roman Colosseum as a botanical mystery and vegetative wonderland. A welcome break from current affairs.https://twitter.com/paulmmcooper/status/935518527125184512 …
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Paul 🌹 📚 CooperVerified account @PaulMMCooper
When botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins: cypresses & ilex, pea plants & over 50 types of grass.
But some flowers growing there mystified him. They were so rare they were found nowhere else in Europe. pic.twitter.com/4GjUYxS33Y
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