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Ice Age flower reblooms

Feb. 21, 2012 — Russian scientists say they have regenerated a flower from the Ice Age.

Feb. 21, 2012 — Russian scientists say they have regenerated a flower from the Ice Age.

The scientists say the Silene stenophylla is the oldest plant ever to be regenerated and is fertile, producing white flowers and viable seeds.

They used fruit tissues from a squirrel’s burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for more than 30-thousand years.