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Thapsia gummifera is a robust perennial herb in the carrot family, native to the western Mediterranean (Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia). It is a wild species rather than a commonly cultivated garden plant, so growing advice is limited; it does best in sunny, dry, well-drained sites.
Thapsia gummifera (syn. Margotia 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.
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