anyone else over grown 200 year old seeds?
Cool. I've read before of finding viable seed in Egyptian tombs. Ain't Mother Nature grand!
It's been years since we visited Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens near or in Washington, DC - http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc95.htm - but I seem to recall that they have a lotus that came from seeds found by archaeologists digging around in an ancient, dried up lake bed in China - the seeds might have been about 1500 years old.
I also seem to recall reading about some ancient seed of a predecessor to modern corn that was found in a South American cave and successfully germinated - not sure how many 100s of years old that seed was.
While we are talking about cool seed topics...how about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Search around and you can find more information, but here is one link:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-06-19-norway-noah-seeds_x.htm
Quoting:
Its purpose is to ensure the survival of crop diversity in the event of plant epidemics, nuclear war, natural disasters or climate change, and to offer the world a chance to restart growth of food crops that may have been wiped out.
- Brent
Coooool. So interesting. And I wonder: will they only consider crop seeds? Any rose seeds or daylily seeds or impatiens seeds? We'll need bugs to pollinate the crops... we'll need to feed them.... well, it feels good to know that someone is thinking about these things!
xxxxx, Carrie
While looking for something else, I tripped over King Herod's Tomb and the Judean date palm in the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed Thought y'all might get a charge out of this.
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