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To: SunkenCiv

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judean_date_palm

>>>By May 2015, the palm was 3.0 metres (9.8 ft) tall and was producing pollen.[5]

Even if the pollination of a female Judean date palm, grown of a seed from the same batch, with Methuselah’s pollen should succeed, the resulting fruit would not represent the recreation of the original ancient cultivar, i.e. the resulting fruit will not have the taste of its ancient predecessor, given that cultivars are created through repeated asexual reproduction through shoots, and not through seeds.<<<

Methuselah, sprouted in 2005, will now have playmates?


23 posted on 02/08/2020 9:47:25 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!)
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To: ApplegateRanch
:^) Yeah, and the wiki page entry obviously has some problem with Jews, as well as with basic reproductive biology. :^) True French Tarragon is grown from cuttings because the flowers of the breed are sterile. This is not the case with date palms.

24 posted on 02/09/2020 6:31:02 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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