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Ice Age Flower

Started by tjwalters , Feb 22 2012 05:22 PM

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#1 tjwalters

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Posted 22 February 2012 - 05:22 PM

Ice age flower revived from frozen fruit tissue: Ice Age Flower :interesting:

Tom
Bowie, Maryland, USA - USDA z7
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#2 Dave-Vero

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Posted 24 February 2012 - 08:49 PM

A memorable problem in a final exam for Variation and Evolution in Plants, circa 1973, featured a lupine-like genus from something like Yukon. You were supposed to notice that viable seeds were watshing out of frozen ground and making "new" plants.

Fla. climate center: 100-119 days>85 F
USDA 1990 hardiness zone 9B
Florida Climate Center zone 10a
arborday.org 2004 hardiness zone 10
4 km inland from Indian River

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