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Olga's Blog – February 2012 Archive (2)
Ice Age Plant
Biologists have resurrected a 30,000-year-old plant, cultivating it from fruit seed tissue recovered from frozen sediment in Siberia. The plant is by far the oldest to be brought back from the dead. Previously, the two record holders were 1,200-year-old sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, recovered in China and 2,000-year-old date palm from Israel.
The late David Gilichinsky from the Soil Cryology Laboratory in…
Added by Olga on February 21, 2012 at 5:30pm — No Comments
Night-Flowering Orchid: Bulbophyllum nocturnum
A night-flowering orchid, the first of its kind known to science, has been described by a team of botanists.
Experts say the "remarkable" species is the only orchid known to consistently flower at night, but why it has adopted this behaviour remains a…
Added by Olga on February 20, 2012 at 7:58pm — No Comments
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