Re: extinct plants
- Subject: Re: extinct plants
- From: &* L* <L*@lyman-dixon.freeserve.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:44:03 +0100
Hi Nan,
Could we run a sweepstake on the number of replies you receive all saying
"Silphium" (No, the Umbellifer, not the modern genus) because the greedy
Ancient Romans guzzled the lot? Probably the most famour plant extinction in
recorded history
Meanwhile a vast number of medicinals have become extinct at specific
locations and are teetering on the edge in other places. There is a rumour
that Echinacea tennesseensis (spelling?) only exists in three of its
original locations and there are plans to build a speedway through the
middle of one of them. Whether it is true or not I don't know but it has a
nasty ring of truth about it.
Anthony
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nan Sterman" <Talkingpoints@PlantSoup.Com>
To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>; "California Natives"
<CA-NATIVES@cambria.com>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 5:14 PM
Subject: extinct plants
> A good friend of mine in Italy sent a question on behalf or her high
> school daughter. Her daughter has been assigned a research report on
> an extinct plant including why, when, etc. it became extinct. She is
> also lookign for some direction for her research of the plant.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
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