Today I learned, via Public Domain Review on BlueSky, that the Roman Colosseum used to be covered in plants before archaeologists and the tourism industry removed them all in the 1850s. There were some 420 species.
They were recorded by an amateur botanist named Richard Deakin in his Flora of the Colosseum of Rome (1855), which can be seen here.
This is the caper bush, Capparis spinosa:
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