Germinating and growing time-lapse of a palm tree from a seed to a young plant. The pit was extracted from a dried date. It was then wrapped into a moist paper towel to germinate. After 20 days, the ...

LONDON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The seeds of the "suicide palm", a newly discovered and extremely rare palm tree, have arrived in Britain for urgent study and conservation, the Royal Botanical Gardens at ...

2005-06-12 04:00:00 PDT Kibbutz Ketura, Israel-- It has five leaves, stands 14 inches high and is nicknamed Methuselah. It looks like an ordinary date palm seedling, but for UCLA- educated botanist ...

Jerusalem | In quarantine under protective netting, a palm sapling coaxed from a seed nearly 2,000 years old is growing in southern Israel. Researchers nurturing the plant, nicknamed Methuselah after ...

Scientists using radiocarbon dating have confirmed that an ancient Judean date palm seed among those found in the ruins of Masada in present-day Israel and planted three years ago is 2,000 years old - ...

Deep underground beneath the Sussex countryside in southern England, millions of seeds are kept frozen in a vault built to ...

Trichy: As part of a statewide initiative to plant one crore palm tree saplings along the banks of Cauvery covering nine districts, NGOs along with school and college students collected palmyra seeds ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN initiative in partnership with Rolex. Laury Cullen is a Rolex Awards Laureate. Small, round, and midnight blue, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the juçara berry ...