32,000-Year-Old Plant Brought Back to Life?!

[Emily124]

32,000-Year-Old Plant Brought Back to Life- Oldest Yet

I just read this article today and thought I would share. It's kind of amazing, isn't it? My imagination is running wild with unrealistic and I'm sure impractical "possibilities". I don't have a background in biology or botany, or any of field relevant to this article, really, but I am curious to hear from someone who does.

 

[Image]

From such tiny seeds, amazing little things preserved in ice no less...

Very cool!

 

[garbage can]

32,000-Year-Old Plant Brought Back to Life- Oldest Yet

I just read this article today and thought I would share. It's kind of amazing, isn't it?

I'm betting it was crabgrass...........

And keep in mind that cockroaches are 300 million years old.... virtually unchanged.......

 

[Emily124]

Perhaps, but it's pretty crabgrass.
Whoa! Is that true about cockroaches? 300 million years?! *Mind: Blown*

 

[warrior queen]

Triffids.
That's my warning about fucking with things that should stay dead.

 

[Emily124]

Oh, this little flower looks mostly harmless.

 

[winegirl]

looking around for ominous sounding music or maybe a glassful of water to start rippling.

 

[DehviantGirl]

Wonder if we can smoke it?

 

[KRCummings]

I'm not at all impressed with 32K years. I want dinosaur plants damnit.

 

[Image]

Wonder if we can smoke it?

heh

 

[JohnnySavage]

It's Kudzu

 

[CHNOPS]

It's Kudzu

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[semen4her]

That's pretty fucking cool.

 

[Blase]

The common name for Silenes is "catchflies". Some of them, along with plants in the closely related genus Lychnis are known as "campions".

 

[Emily124]

The common name for Silenes is "catchflies". Some of them, along with plants in the closely related genus Lychnis are known as "campions".

Thank you, Blase.
I wonder if "catchflies" actually catch flies, like the Venus flytrap?

 

[richard_daily]

Dinosaurs will once again roam the earth...

And I will ride them...

Like jesus.

http://mxrk.net/storage/jesus_riding_dinosaur1.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1285796133340

 

[CHNOPS]

That's pretty fucking cool.

Thanks.

 

[butters]

Oh, this little flower looks mostly harmless.

the petals look like little white moths!

 

[Trace_Element]

From such tiny seeds, amazing little things

That was about as far as I got, dear...

 

[Blase]

Thank you, Blase.
I wonder if "catchflies" actually catch flies, like the Venus flytrap?

A few sources note that catchflies produce sticky secretions on their stems that can in fact cause small insects to become stuck to them (so do some other plants, like the common petunia), but these are not carnivorous plants: They're not equipped to digest insects as Venus flytraps, pitcher plants and sundews are.

 

[Emily124]

A few sources note that catchflies produce sticky secretions on their stems that can in fact cause small insects to become stuck to them (so do some other plants, like the common petunia), but these are not carnivorous plants: They're not equipped to digest insects as Venus flytraps, pitcher plants and sundews are.

Carnivorous plant sounds oxymoronic, doesn't it? Very interesting, Blase. Thank you for teaching me something new today!

 

[CandiCame]

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Unless someone like you cares a whole, awful lot...