Five weeks later, a shoot appeared, and after undergoing testing, the seed was dated at a whopping 1,000 years old. The test results revealed the so-called “mystery tree” to be part of ...

To the researchers’ surprise, five weeks later up popped a tiny shoot, a fragment of which the scientists were able to date: The seed was a staggering 1,000 years old. Remarkably, the tree ...

This tree was grown from a 1,000-year-old seed unearthed by archaeologists inside a cave in the Judean Desert. The species of the tree remains a mystery, according to the botanists who planted the ...

Nicknamed “Sheba” (according to Josephus, Queen Sheba brought the balsam root from Arabia to King Solomon as a gift), the tree grown from the seed, now 14 years old, is three meters (~10 feet ...

“That’s how you get a tree to be 500 years old,” Geisinger said. “The oldest bonsai are about 500 years old.” More than 1,000 people will visit his tree this weekend as part of the ...

The garden highlights its hundreds of living specimens including flowering and fragrant trees with tours, walks, and other ...

Scientists believe the seed belongs to a now-extinct species of trees that existed in the region which is modern-day Israel, Palestine and Jordan. (Also Read: 10-year-old’s curiosity leads to ...