Ferula hermonis

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Ferula hermonis is a species of flowering plant in the Apiaceae family. It is native to Lebanon, Syria and Turkey.{{cite web|url= https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:842303-1|title= Ferula hermonis Boiss.|author=|date=n.d.|website=Plants of the World Online|publisher=The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|access-date= August 26, 2020}} The epithet hermonis refers to Mount Hermon on the border between Syria, Israel and Lebanon.Boissier, Pierre Edmond 1873. Flora Orientalis sive enumeratio plantarum in Oriente a Graecia et Aegypto ad Indiae 2: 985[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=842303-1&back_page=%2Fipni%2FeditAdvPlantNameSearch.do%3Ffind_infragenus%3D%26find_geoUnit%3D%26find_includePublicationAuthors%3Dtrue%26find_addedSince%3D%26find_family%3D%26find_genus%3DFerula%26find_infrafamily%3D%26find_rankToReturn%3Dspec%26find_publicationTitle%3D%26find_authorAbbrev%3D%26find_infraspecies%3D%26find_includeBasionymAuthors%3Dtrue%26find_modifiedSince%3D%26find_species%3Dhermonis%26output_format%3Dnormal The International Plant Names Index]

Common names include zallouh (Arabic: زلّوع) and Lebanese viagra. The latter name alludes to the traditional use of the roots of this plant as a purported aphrodisiac.{{citation|title=Lebanon has its own natural version of Viagra|publisher=CNN International|date=August 12, 1998|url=http://edition.cnn.com/HEALTH/9808/12/natural.viagra/index.html}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.gcwhite.co.uk/Ferula.htm |title=Graham White, National Institute of Medical Herbalists, Ferula hermonis "The Lebanese Viagra" by Stuart FitzSimmons |access-date=12 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616013405/http://www.gcwhite.co.uk/Ferula.htm |archive-date=16 June 2015 |url-status=dead }}