AW: [MPWG] Can You Help?

[Honnef at wwf.de]

Dear Robyn,
the article on Sylphion you mentioned was published in HerbalGram 48 (2000). Sylphion is a good example for a plant that became extinct due to increasing use/trade and press people like the ancient flair of this story. However, it always has the touch of being a legend. I would be very much interested in other examples for plants that became more than scarce by using them for medicinal or nutritional purposes.
Best regards
Susanne

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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	Robyn Klein [SMTP:robyn at rrreading.com]
> Gesendet am:	Samstag, 15. November 2003 10:39
> An:	mpwg at lists.plantconservation.org
> Betreff:	Re: [MPWG] Can You Help?
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> Yes, I believe the story is retold in perhaps "Eve's Herbs: A History of 
> Abortion and Contraception in the West" by John Riddle. And, I think maybe 
> an article was written on Silphion in a past issue of HerbalGram. One way 
> that historians know about Silphion was that the plant was imprinted on 
> coins back before Pliny's day and modern day botanists couldn't find the 
> plant.
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> Best Regards,
> Robyn Klein
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> >This is a great question.  I hope to read a lot of answers. The only item
> >I can contribute is silphion which was, as I have read, used as a
> >contraceptive and an abortifacient by the Greek.  It was used to such
> >an extent that Pliny the Elder, eventually, reported of its scarcity.
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