Ah the biannual ‘we’ve found silphium’

Several people have stumbled upon Ferula Drudeana in Turkey and remarked upon the similarities.

It was a plant that could not be cultivated with ancient methods.

This is the third independent discovery I can remember in the last decade.

From silphium wiki: "Theophrastus wrote in Enquiry into Plants that the type of Ferula specifically referred to as "silphium" was odd in that it could not be cultivated."

> Ah the biannual ‘we’ve found silphium’

It's worse than that, this is a Greek paper picking up the news from 2021 out of a Turkish university.

Looks like Greek paper is a report on National Geographic’s article which is also more detailed and interesting than the Greek one.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/miracle-p...

Ah gotcha, that's quite amusing. I wouldn't have submitted it if I'd had that context, this is my first time paying attention to the Silphium news cycle, but so it goes.