#extinct plant

[briery]

A closer look reveals the delicate fronds of Ferula drudeana propagated at Istanbul’s Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanical Garden. The Ferula genus of flowering plants includes carrots, fennel, and parsley.

[3thingslearnedtoday]

September 20th, 2013

1. Russian scientists grew a flower that had been extinct for 32,000 years after finding in-tact seeds frozen with a squirrel.

2. Dwarfs is the pluralizaiton of dwarf, while dwarves is a word made up by Tolkien to indicate a race of people.

3. The measure to cut funding for food stamps passed in The House.