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02-21-2012, 06:00 AM
http://home.suddenlink.net/news/read.php?rip_id=%3CD9T1BEI80%40news.ap.org%3E&ps=1018

The Silene stenophylla is the oldest plant ever to be regenerated, the researchers said, and it is fertile, producing white flowers and viable seeds.

mriddick
02-21-2012, 06:05 AM
That is pretty cool.

N/A
02-21-2012, 06:17 AM
Be interesting to see what they can find next.

As an aside, I hope they find that acorn that the little squirell in the "Ice Age" movies kept trying to get. :D

Schuetzenman
02-21-2012, 06:18 AM
That is pretty cool.

Very Punny.