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Thapsia gummifera
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Thapsia gummifera is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the western Mediterranean; Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. It has been proposed as a candidate for the plant known in antiquity as silphium and gone extinct in Libya in the 5th century.
- Family
- Apiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Thapsia gummifera
- Slug
- thapsia-gummifera
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Genus
- Thapsia
- Species
- gummifera
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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