Flora

2,000 year old seed grows into sapling

In Ecology, Flora, History, Israel on 14 June 2008 with no comments

A botanist in Israel has nurtured a sapling from a 2,000 year old seed discovered at King Herod’s winter palace on Mount Masada. The Judean date palm sapling, which now stands at about 5 feet tall, may be used to reestablish the species in a region where it once thrived.
The Judean date is chronicled in [...]