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The Herbs That Got Away: Rediscovering Silphium and Other Missing Historical Plants – Herbal Academy
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Ferris Jabr on X: "So what was this widely beloved plant, exactly? Some say silphium was a now extinct variety of giant fennel (Ferula). Or maybe it's still out there, one of
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The Intriguing Disappearance of Silphium - When a species becomes extinct, we normally assume that it is an animal of some sort. Plants also become extinct. Today, silphium is nowhere to be
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