Re: Age of germinating seeds continued....

**"* L* <t*@earthlink.net>**

To date, the oldest seeds are the arctic lupine (Lupinus arcticus) with germinating seeds found frozen and buried in the Canadian Yukon. Seeds were taken from an ancient rodent burrow that contained the skull of a lemming. Carbon dating of the nests and remains of Arctic ground squirrels found buried under similar conditions registered an age in excess of ten thousand years. Seeds of lamb's-quarters or pigweed (Chenopodium album) were found in a dig in Denmark and dated at 1700 years of age. Peter
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From: "Christopher P. Lindsey" <topica.com@spamfodder.com>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Garden thugs continued....


> On Jan 13, Tom Ogren wrote:
>> Anyhow, if anyone has
>> seen a plant whose seed persists longer than this, I'd be curious to hear
>> about it.
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Replying off-list (please send a summary of what you hear!), but there
> is the 2000 year-old seed from a date palm that was germinated in 2008:
> 
>   http://neveryetmelted.com/2008/06/15/2000-year-old-palm-seed-from-masada-grown-into-tree/
> 
> Fascinating that the tree was thought to be extinct 1500 years ago.
> 
> The article mentions that 1300 year-old Chinese lotus seed has been
> germinated as well.
> 
> Chris
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