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Knowledge of the value of pyrethrum flowers as an insecticidal material was kept well hidden by the original discoverers and it was not until the nineteenth century that European populations became aware of the disinfesting value of a material known as „Persian Insect Powder“. There is a widely accepted legend which tells that an Armenian merchant named Djumtikov obtained the secret from tribesmen when journeying in the Caucasus Mountains and the story ends with a belief that it was Djumtikov’s son who first began manufacture on a commercial scale. Gnadinger (1936) quotes another story which relates that a German woman of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia threw away a withered bunch of pyrethrum flowers which had served as a floral decoration. At a later date, this woman observed that these were surrounded by dead insects, a fact she wisely related to some specific property of the flowers themselves. Whether this story is true or not, it is a fact that the commercial development of pyrethrum originated in Dalmatia.
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Phipers, R.F. (1955). Pyrethrins and Allied Compounds. In: Paech, K., Tracey, M.V. (eds) Moderne Methoden der Pflanzenanalyse/Modern Methods of Plant Analysis. Moderne Methoden der Pflanzenanalyse/Modern Methods of Plant Analysis, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-64958-5_2
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