It’s Silene stenophylla a plant from the family of rattleweed and night-flowering campion.
380,000 years ago some squirrel buried its seeds in the ground and forgot it there. Over the millennia that treasure got buried under 38 meters of Siberian permafrost matter and never thawed.
2012, Russian scientists took the tissue of the unripe seeds and hatched seedlings of which one was given to the Austrian scientist. In a special climate chamber she accomplished to develop the full grown flower.
Yes. Why go to Mars? Really now. We haven’t discovered even half of what’s to find on this gem of our planet – let alone understood how things are really dependent from one another.
Looks to be some kind of orchid. Watch, once out of the test tube it with morph into Seymour and be the plant that kills off humanity… feed me!
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That bloody funny Cederq.
But this project is just an indication of how bored people are in lock-down.
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This is not the year for that shit!
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It’s Silene stenophylla a plant from the family of rattleweed and night-flowering campion.
380,000 years ago some squirrel buried its seeds in the ground and forgot it there. Over the millennia that treasure got buried under 38 meters of Siberian permafrost matter and never thawed.
2012, Russian scientists took the tissue of the unripe seeds and hatched seedlings of which one was given to the Austrian scientist. In a special climate chamber she accomplished to develop the full grown flower.
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Even cooler when you explain how it got there.
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That is interesting! One has to wonder what other plants are entombed like that waiting to be discovered that are not in our flora today.
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Yes. Why go to Mars? Really now. We haven’t discovered even half of what’s to find on this gem of our planet – let alone understood how things are really dependent from one another.
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Because Earth is SO 20th century, we need new horizons.
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So, UnF, is it a weed or a flower? Does it have commercial appeal?
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Dunno. Maybe we could smoke it.
Siberian High 😄
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So what would we call it? Mastodon wowie?
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We’ve gotta make sure wether Mastdons lived some 30,000 years ago. I doubt it though.
Maybe “Wilma’s delight”?
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It was subsequently found that the plant is deadly to humans and can’t be destroyed!
The plant has been named COVID 20, film at 11:00……..
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Lol, it’s carnivorous too…..
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Nice rack too.
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Yeah, but can you get a buzz?
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