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3.B.a - The plants in Pompeian gardens

In the gardens, whose vegetation has been traced by studying plant remains such as pollen, seeds and wood of various kinds, both useful and ‘ornamental’ plants were grown: little fruit trees, juniper bushes, vines to shade the tricliniums, roses, ivy, myrtle, box and viburnum, as well as annual and perennial herbaceous plants such as lychnis, chickweed, artemisia, and malva.

Each of these species had multiple uses in daily life. Some of them, such as roses, chickweed and lychnis, were employed in ritual ceremonies, while others, including myrtle and juniper, were used in domestic pharmacy.

The lawns were made up of a great number of spontaneous species, mainly Graminaceae and Leguminosae.


  Anthemis sp.   Arbutus unedo   Aster amellus   Calystegia sylvestris   Chrysanthemum segetum   Laurus nobilis   Lilium candidum   Nerium oleander   Papaver somniferum   Phoenix dactylyphera   Platanus orientalis, Columba palumbus,Pica pica, Passer ital.   Polygonatum multiflorum   Rosa centifolia, Luscinia megarhyncha   Rosa versicolor   Viburnum tinus, Oriolus oriolus   Vinca sp.   Chrysanthemum segetum   Nelumbo nucifera   Vinca sp.
 
 
 


 
 
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