Methuselah the Judean Date Palm is still going strong even after sprouting from a 2,000-year-old seed. By Benjitheijneb (Own work) via Wikimedia Commons Get out the cigars—Methuselah, a Judean ...

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.

It was a Judean date tree that King Solomon was dreaming of when he wrote in The Song of Songs “You are as stately as the date palm and your breasts are like its bunches.” In a few years ...

To the surprise and delight of Sallon and her colleagues, it sprouted, and they named that first date-palm tree Methuselah, who in the Bible lived to the age of 969.

2005-06-12 04:00:00 PDT Kibbutz Ketura, Israel-- It has five leaves, stands 14 inches high and is nicknamed Methuselah.It looks like an ordinary date palm seedling, but for UCLA- educated botanist ...

Methuselah, the first date palm tree grown from ancient seeds, in a photo taken in 2008. Guy Eisner The world's most remarkable date palm trees might not exist if Sarah Sallon hadn' ...

The tree has been named Methuselah after the oldest person in the Bible. It is the only living Judean date palm, the last link to the vast date palm forests that once shaded and nourished the ...

A Date Palm Named Methuselah. An excerpt from “The Triumph of Seeds,” by Thor Hanson. by Thor Hanson, on May 22, 2015. ... Not surprisingly, many of the coins featured the graceful curving leaves of ...

Dubbed the "Methuselah Tree" after the oldest person in the Bible, the new plant has been growing steadily, and after 26 months, the tree was nearly four-feet (1.2 meters) tall.

Dr. Elaine Solowey planting a rather younger Methuselah in the ground, 2007. Photo by Dan Keinan Methuselah, the Judean date palm grown from a 2,000-year old seed, has turned out to be male, and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A DATE palm seed found in Israel's ruins of Masada and planted three years ago has been confirmed as 2000 years old, the oldest seed ...

Methuselah date palm, grown from a 2,000-year-old seed found at Masada, is now in kibbutz Ketura. ... a juice can be extracted from the tree’s trunk, and ground date pits can be fed to camels.