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It’s very unfortunate, and it causes species native to Türkiye to disappear. A lot of the salep you might find shopping is a salep mix, meant to make the drink salep, and is mostly sugar. The history of the salep drink is itself fascinating. A hot salep-based drink was for a while wifely popular in England, but then fell out of favor when it became associated with being a medicine for venereal disease https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salep

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Orchids have been consumed since ancient times, in Ancient Greece and probably even earlier.

The name orchid comes from Greek, from orchis (testicles). Each plant has two bulbs, hence the name, and it was considered in ancient times a strong aphrodisiac.

These species of orchids can be found throughout the Mediterranean, and all the way to Iran.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-18255-7_...

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