12
Nov
Mesmerizing, Camera-Less Images of Electrocuted Flowers
Marina Galperina, flavorwire.comIt can take up to 150 attempts to capture one of these glowing, alien plant images — not to mention the risk of accidental electrocution with 80,000 volts. But look at the results! Beautiful. Fearless, patient San Francisco artist Rob…
21
Feb
30,000 year old flower revived.
Scientists have resurrected a flower from plant tissues found frozen in Siberian permafrost, thought to be 30,000-32,000 years old. The new Silene stenophylla is healthy and fertile, and producing viable seeds.
The experiment has excited many because it proves that material trapped in the permafrost is recoverable and usable - scientists have been working to recover other species of plant and animal life from the same area, such as the woolly mammoth.
24
Mar
Voodoo lily offers trip to smell hell
A voodoo lily, a giant tropical flower that sends out the stink of rotting flesh when it opens, is getting set to open at the Minnesota Zoo.
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