The taste of passion.

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  • Author(s): Starin, Dawn (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    Geographical (Geographical Magazine Ltd.). Feb2021, Vol. 93 Issue 2, p12-15. 4p. 5 Color Photographs.
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    • Subject Terms:
      LABORATORY mice; CRETACEOUS Period; MIDDLE-aged men; FLOWERING of plants; PLANT conservation
    • Abstract:
      DEPARTMENTS: WORLDWATCH In the middle of Athens, not far from the ancient Stoa of Attalos, possibly Europe's oldest shopping mall, street traders wait patiently for customers. The 17th-century herbalist John Parkinson, apothecary to King James I and royal botanist to King Charles I, wrote in his Theatrum Botanicum that the firm roots of the orchid procured lust, while the withered tubers calmed it. It requires the collection of 1,000-4,000 orchids to obtain just one kilogram of dried tubers, so it's hardly surprising that several wild orchid species now face extinction, especially since all of the salepi sellers to whom I spoke advertise their product as being made from genuine orchid root. [Extracted from the article]
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