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In 2005, a team of scientists sprouted a preserved 2,000-year-old seed, the oldest seed germinated with human-assistance (with the claim in 2012 of a 32,000-year-old arctic flower involving fruit tissue rather than a seed). [1] The palm, a male, was named Methuselah (not to be confused with a bristlecone pine tree of the same name). Following ...
The oldest viable seed that has grown into a full plant was a roughly 2,000-year-old Judean date palm seed, recovered during excavations at Herod the Great's palace on Masada. It had been preserved in a cool, dry place, not by freezing. It was germinated in 2005. [3] [4] [5] [6]
One cultivar, the Judean date palm, is renowned for its long-lived orthodox seed, which successfully sprouted after accidental storage for 2,000 years. [26] In total seven seeds about 2000 years old have sprouted and turned into trees named Methuselah, Hannah, Adam, Judith, Boaz, Jonah and Uriel. [27]
A long-lost tree species has new life after scientists planted a 1,000-year-old seed ... Israel, used a process perfected during previous research led by Sallon on 2,000-year-old date palm seeds ...
Tree’s resin, called ’tsori’ in Biblical texts, was highly prized in ancient world for its used in perfume, incense, cataract medicine, embalming agents, and antidotes
The first surviving example of the Judean date palm, artificially germinated from a 2,000-year-old seed discovered during archaeological excavations in Masada, was planted in Ketura and continues to survive there. It was nicknamed 'Methuselah'.
A 2,000-year-old Judean date palm seed discovered during archaeological excavations in the early 1960s was successfully germinated into a date plant, popularly known as "Methuselah" after the longest-living figure in the Hebrew Bible. At the time, it was the oldest known germination, [39] remaining so until a new record was set in 2012. [40]
Israel: Arabic: نخل يهودا: An ancient cultivar which, in 2005, was revived from a 2000-year-old seed. This cultivar is originally from the west coast of the Dead Sea. Kaanihery Niger: Kabkab Iran; Syria: Arabic: کبکاب: Karbaline Pakistan: Karwan Pakistan: Kasho Wari Pakistan: Kathari Libya: Kehraba Pakistan: Kentichi Algeria ...