#old plants

[sweet-harmony]

…I can't stand walking in all this heat…

@sweet-harmony

[wanderingtrails]

Back home there is a ficus benjamin that is older than I. It has moved around wherever we have gone and somehow hasn’t thrown too many tantrums. My mom recently went about trimming the bare sticks and a few little ones came off in the process. I now have them in water and am hoping for roots. If this works out I can have a child plant that is sort of older than me!

[yellowrose543]

Old window

Bea Rossi on Flickr

[troll-skogur]

Birth and growth of ferns....

Majestic

[microcosmicobservations]

In the space between fall and winter, inspect seed capsules and the way desiccated leaves look in the slanted light.

[los-plantalones]

graptopetalum mendozae

[dirt-under-your-bed]

Would you consider the clone of a simple living mechanism equal to it's original?

Like seperating the roots of one plant, and growing two trees with the exact same DNA

Cause in that sense, one of the longest living organisms we know of are the Pando wich is 16 000 years old!!

It's a large field of trees with a shared root-system

That thing has been there when the Earth was just melting out from it's last huge ice-periods and all humans were hunter-gatherers

[notesfromanisland]

Scientists in Russia raise plants from fruit stored away by squirrels 30,000 years ago, smashing the previous age record.