It is the castilianization of a genus of plants of the Asteraceae family, which corresponds to Silphium in latin and technical way. They are perennial herbaceous plants with flowers. usually yellow. In ancient times it was the name of an aromatic plant, used as seasoning and for medicinal use in Greece. His throat was tapped. Today is already by and corresponded to the laserpicio and very similar to asafoetida (thought disappeared since the middle of the 1st century, due to over-exploitation and the difficulty of spreading it and grow it).
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