2,000 year old date palm seed geminated and is growing.

[KarenCharin0]

2,000 year old date palm seeds were found in Masada ( near the Dead Sea ). One of the seeds germinated and grew.  Read the whole story below.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/2000yearold-seed-grows-into-tree-of-life-for-scientists-846247.html

[KarenCharin0]

Here's some more good infromation about the seed.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/12/MNGJND7G5T1.DTL  the original story

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-methuselah13-2008jun13,0,1531619.story  this one has a picture of it.

http://sphyrnatude.wordpress.com/ask-dr-science-he-knows-more-than-you-do/123/  how a seed this old could still be made to grow

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1026082/The-Jesus-tree--Date-palm-grown-2-000-year-old-seed-Christ-walked-Earth.html   another picture of it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judean_date_palm   information about the date palm in Hebrew " Tamar"