Source: Atlas Obscura
For more than a century, the Santos Museum of Economic Botany has educated the public about thousands of phytochemical and ethnobotanical derivatives. Anyone with even a passing interest in food, drugs, or clothing will be fascinated by the cornucopia of plants, seeds, fruit, and horticultural curiosities presented with detailed descriptions of their historical and contemporary uses.
At the height of the industrial revolution in the 19th century, many corporations were at pains to conceal the origins…
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