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.

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 ...

PixabayJudean dates were ubiquitously grown in the region until the 19th century and famed for their long shelf life. Who would have known that seeds from 2,000 years ago would still be able to ...

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 ...

Botanists have grown a long-lost tree species from a 1,000-year-old ... previous research led by Sallon on 2,000-year-old date palm seeds. The approach involved soaking the mysterious Judean ...

Date is a tropical fruit from the date palm tree, scientifically known as Phoenix ... Let us take a trip down history lane with date seeds. The story of date seed coffee began centuries ago ...