Wednesday 22 February 2012

30,000-Year-Old Flower and Woolly mammoth tusks.... Amazing pictures....(Question No:102)

Name this regenerated ICEAGE flower?

Answer:Silene stenophylla

Woolly mammoth tusks recovered  from Siberian permafrost in 1999
  • The seeds of the herbaceous Silene stenophylla are far and away the oldest plant tissue to have been brought back to life.
  • The previous record for viable regeneration of ancient flora was with 2,000-year-old date palm seeds at the Masada fortress near the Dead Sea in Israel. Fruit seeds stored away by squirrels more than 30,000 years ago and found in Siberian permafrost have been regenerated into full flowering plants by scientists in Russia


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