The seed that produced Methuselah was discovered ... The ancient Hebrews called the date palm the "tree of life" because of the protein in its fruit and the shade given by its long leafy branches.

These seeds, according to radiocarbon dating ... and they named that first date-palm tree Methuselah, who in the Bible lived to the age of 969. “I was so not expecting it,” says Sallon ...

By Benjitheijneb (Own work) via Wikimedia Commons Get out the cigars—Methuselah, a Judean date palm tree that was grown from a 2,000 year old seed, has become a papa plant. Elaine Solowey ...

A male date palm tree named Methuselah that sprouted from a 2,000-year-old seed nearly a decade ago is thriving today, according to the Israeli researcher who is cultivating the historic plant.

planted some of these ancient palm seeds. "Six weeks later, little green shoots appeared!" she says. One tree grew. They named it Methuselah. But Methuselah had a problem. Date trees are a little ...

The tree has been named Methuselah after ... Sallon and her colleagues hope to cultivate more ancient date seeds and eventually reintroduce the Judean date palm to the area.

Potting and Caring for Germinated Date Palm Seeds After your date palm seeds have ... for the amount to use based on the size of the tree. Repot a date palm only when roots are visible through ...

What the island nation of Cape Verde cherishes as its own distinctive kind of date palm is getting an ancestry ... Now a new DNA and seed-shape analysis adds weight to the idea that the remote ...