I have found evidence of spice trade in the text and I would like to know if there are any plants that can be part of the spices that were loaded on ships, just by relying on the figures.

None that I can think of off-hand, but JKP's your man there

There was a guy called Thomas Spande on Nick Pelling's site who had the same idea.

He made many tentative ID's but how good they were is a moot point.

(10-07-2021, 02:44 PM)DONJCH Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There was a guy called Thomas Spande on Nick Pelling's site who had the same idea.

He made many tentative ID's but how good they were is a moot point.

Do you remember the plants with their associated page? I can examine the characteristics.

(12-07-2021, 10:06 AM)Pardis Motiee Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Do you remember the plants with their associated page?

Just hit this page and scroll down to ~March 2016
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He found a book about Marco Polo and got all excited. There were many posts.

I too would generally trust JKP though, he is thorough, skeptical and very very experienced in VM research.

Yes, it's very long. Pepper, wild ginger, and turmeric had been mentioned. I don't agree with pepper at all. Wild ginger I doubt it and turmeric, I have nothing to say. Out of spices, mulberry seems a great identification in my view. The person is identifying based on Yin Yang and classical Chinese materia medica which I am not familiar with. I hope we can hear JKP's opinion on the possibility of spice trade.

The possibility of spice trade has been discussed before such as in this thread
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As Koen said in that thread
"It feels more plausible if you think of it as various chains linking together in a network, instead of just a direct connection between Australia and Europe."