Pushing pines to the limit described in the Annals of Botany doi: 10.1093/aob/mcr135, published online 3 July 2011. Catherine Offord of The Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan, southwest of Sydney, Australia, has tested the upper and lower temperature limits for survival in a number of Araucaria species (Southern Pines) including the Wollemi pine. In the […]
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Ginkgo Ghost Story
Ginkgo ghost story reported in ScienceNOW 9 August 2006. Gingko biloba, also known as the maidenhair tree, is used as a source of herbal medicine. In 1992 a French cell biologist, Jocelyne Trémouillaux-Guiller from the Université François-Rabelais de Tours noticed that cell cultures used to produce ginkgo medicinal products contained “algal ghosts” – cell-like structures […]
Fossil Leaves Were Insects
Fossil leaves were insects, according to articles in Wired Science and PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1205517109 26 November 2013, and Smithsonian News 5 December 2013. Scientists in USA and China have found “a case of mixed identity between a particular plant and an insect in the laboratory and the field”. The plant is a ginkgo, the insect […]