[Jack Hydrazine]

This date palm was the Tree of Life that grew in the courtyard of the Temple back in the old days.

[Paladin2]

Reading the h/l made me wonder if this post had sexual content. It turned out to be a satisfying read...

[Semper911]

Interesting. I just read recently that palm trees aren’t trees. They are actually a grass. They don’t have a root system like trees do, just a big root ball.

Of course if I am mistaken, a freeper will be here to correct me in a few seconds.

[exDemMom]

For all the times I’ve peered at a coworker’s plant and told them whether the plant is male, female, or both, it looks really weird to see a gender-specific pronoun used with a plant.

I think I would have said “male tree” and continued to use the neutral pronoun to refer to it.

[dadfly]

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[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This is incredibly good news for Christians, because the Judean palm was the original Palm Sunday palm.

Making fertile dates with a different tree is also important, because though the dates will be hybrid, most of the genetic matter of the other date can be purged over generations, except the female chromosome, creating trees that are almost identical to the ancient ones.

[xp38]

This tree the General Sherman in Sequoia National Park is estimated to be 2300-2700 years old.

[Larry Lucido]

Please, don’t discover any ancient super-kudzu.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

“We pollinated a female with his pollen, a wild [modern] female, and yeah, he can make dates.”

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Us old guys can get it done!

[DanielRedfoot]

Number 3...... The Larch......the Larch

[yarddog]

The word “date” has so many meanings.

[blam]

" Back in 2012, a team of Russian scientists unearthed a cache of seeds from a prehistoric squirrel burrow that had been covered in ice. They eventually succeeded in germinating the 32,000-year-old specimens, which grew into an arctic plant closely resembling the modern narrow-leafed Campion."

32,000-Year-Old Plant Brought Back to Life—Oldest Yet

"The oldest plant ever to be regenerated has been grown from 32,000-year-old seeds—beating the previous recordholder by some 30,000 years. (Related: "'Methuselah' Tree Grew From 2,000-Year-Old Seed.")"

[kvanbrunt2]

any heirloom tomatoes?

[5th MEB]

COOL; I just planted some date seeds in the yard about 2 weeks ago.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Pic of Methuselah the date palm:

[ApplegateRanch]

Thanks for finding this; I’ve been wondering about how the experiment was progressing.