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Answer by Patrick Zissou for Could ancient seeds buried deep in subsoil...

my example is only on the scale of 100 years or so but in wisconsin where previously there had been grain fields turned pine forests (for lumber) the state tried restoring prairie, they clear cut the...

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Answer by kingledion for Could ancient seeds buried deep in subsoil sprout...

PlantsThere is a whole wikipedia page for this! The oldest mature seed that grew into a plant on its own was a date palm excavated from Masada (which has its own wiki page too!). The seed would be...

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Answer by Separatrix for Could ancient seeds buried deep in subsoil sprout...

The oldest seed germinated is around 32,000 years old.The mature and immature seeds, which had been entirely encased in ice, were unearthed from 124 feet (38 meters) below the permafrost, surrounded by...

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Could ancient seeds buried deep in subsoil sprout given the right conditions?

A friend of mine was telling me about a story where a man clear cut a diverse ecosystem of plants in an area similar to size and shape of a small caldera (not necessarily a caldera itself). Eventually,...

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