Ha! So all I had to do here on Bluesky was search "silphion" only to discover a recent book on this very subject, AND the history behind "the host herb of the ancients". 🤩 Just ordered myself a copy: The Lost Supper, by Taras Grescoe. 🌱 #silphion #silphium #botany #planthistory #PlantSci

Next Chapter in the Legend of Silphion: Prel... Silphion was an ancient medicinal gum-resin; most likely ...

Further reading on the "Next Chapter in the Legend of #Silphion: Preliminary Morphological, Chemical, Biological and Pharmacological Evaluations, Initial Conservation Studies …" here by @FrameInit in Plants 10(1), 2021. 🔓

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7825337