. @tkingfisher.com@nycteris.bsky.social tl;dr: Botanists managed to successfully germinate a 1,000 year old tree seed of an apparently extinct species and have kept it growing for the past 14 years or so

Ccnn.comOct 5, 2024 11:36am

How a long-lost biblical plant with medicinal properties was resurrected from a 1,000-year-old seed: cnn.it/4eBXI4f

Lost biblical tree resurrected from 1,000 year-old seed | CNN

A long-lost tree species has new life after scientists planted a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in the 1980s during an archaeological dig.

Woohoo!

Next thing you know, we will rediscover the gopher tree and plant some to build an ark in like a century