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hlen5 -> How Sad (8/20/2011 11:53:58 AM)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/10/136029423/the-loneliest-plant-in-the-world?ps=cprs

GreedyTop -> RE: How Sad (8/20/2011 3:09:56 PM)
Aww!! sad

peppermint -> RE: How Sad (8/20/2011 3:27:21 PM)
There is always hope. While I was at Midway Island in 1978 there was a golden gooney (it's a big bird, a kind of albatross) there. They have a strong desire to return to where they were born to have their own chicks. However, there was only the one. They caught it and took it to an island where there were other golden gooneys only to have it return to Midway a short time later. I just read a piece that said 2 golden gooneys that had been hatched on another island just raised a chick on Midway. It survived winds, a tsunami, and rains and once was washed 50 yards from the nest. They just might find that girl tree one of these days.

GreedyTop -> RE: How Sad (8/20/2011 3:42:51 PM)
oh thats cool, peppermint!

LillyBoPeep -> RE: How Sad (8/20/2011 3:47:45 PM)
that is sad! lonely, lonely tree -- i will hold out hope that there is a girl tree hiding somewhere.

erieangel -> RE: How Sad (8/20/2011 4:17:10 PM)
How sad. Hope they find this tree a pretty little mate soon.

Edwynn -> RE: How Sad (8/20/2011 4:34:07 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: peppermint They just might find that girl tree one of these days. Put the tree on Easter Island. That little speck of land accommodates evolution like nobody's business. Assuming that this is a "boy" tree, it would not surprise me if there might be a centuries-long dormant seed of a "girl" tree somewhere in the world (study of Geology presents us with many things we never knew possible). Birds can change both beak shape and color in just one year on that parcel of land, so if ever were there an island made for the purpose, that would be my choice. Windblown seeds from distant lands when some like-species is detected. That is Easter Island's forte.

Termyn8or -> RE: How Sad (8/20/2011 5:05:49 PM)
FR Hlen, you are one hell of a person to care like that. At least I think so. The poor lonely tree, sounds like a joke but it isn't. I don't think all hope is lost though. There may be a fertile seed somewhere on this planet. That's what seeds are for, to preserve the species. Seeds can last a hell of a long time. Now if they can find a fertile seed and plant it, then it's a 50/50 chance it will be a female. If so, I'd say that these things are probably not dangerous so let's repropogate the species. Being trees the only danger they pose is to my sewer line (uuugh) or jumping out in front of cars driven be drunk drivers. But trees will be trees. Now the other possibility is if they find that one seed and it grows up to me a male, at least the old guy will have a drinking buddy. I'm not poking fun at all, I think it would be great to have these things around. But we do have to accept the fact that sometimes species' do go extinct. You know the dodo bird actually went extinct during recorded history, there are actual drawings. T^T

hlen5 -> RE: How Sad (8/20/2011 5:15:34 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Termyn8or FR Hlen, you are one hell of a person to care like that. At least I think so. The poor lonely tree, sounds like a joke but it isn't. I don't think all hope is lost though. There may be a fertile seed somewhere on this planet. That's what seeds are for, to preserve the species. Seeds can last a hell of a long time. Now if they can find a fertile seed and plant it, then it's a 50/50 chance it will be a female. If so, I'd say that these things are probably not dangerous so let's repropogate the species. Being trees the only danger they pose is to my sewer line (uuugh) or jumping out in front of cars driven be drunk drivers. But trees will be trees. Now the other possibility is if they find that one seed and it grows up to me a male, at least the old guy will have a drinking buddy. I'm not poking fun at all, I think it would be great to have these things around. But we do have to accept the fact that sometimes species' do go extinct. You know the dodo bird actually went extinct during recorded history, there are actual drawings. T^T Thank you, Termy! That's true, to every thing there is a season... Hey, maybe if it had it's own facebook page, someone, somewhere in the world could find his mate!

Termyn8or -> RE: How Sad (8/20/2011 7:59:13 PM)
Perhaps you have found your calling. Kids are probably throwing the seeds at cars and shit, get the royal society of who the hellever to offer a reward. Something like that. Hey, a snowball's chance in hell but a seed COULD be found anywhere. You could make a mark on the world. Most of us ain't. Think about it. T^T

LillyBoPeep -> RE: How Sad (8/21/2011 3:46:15 AM)
i would love if there was some a seed hiding somewhere in time; weren't ancient grain seeds from Israel recently germinated after sitting dormant for centuries?

PeonForHer -> RE: How Sad (8/21/2011 4:03:33 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: hlen5 Hey, maybe if it had it's own facebook page, someone, somewhere in the world could find his mate! Seriously, I think that might just work. Here in the UK, there are regular calls for amateurs to keep an eye out for certain species of fauna (hedgehogs, foxes, for instance), so I don't see why the same thing shouldn't happen for species of flora. I sure in hell would recognise that plant again. But . . . much depends on its habitat. Hmmm.

LillyBoPeep -> RE: How Sad (8/21/2011 4:45:33 AM)
the Ongoye/Ngoya forest itself has a facebook page; it wouldn't be such a far stretch for a tree to have one. how great would it be if a chick tree WAS found somewhere?

dovie -> RE: How Sad (8/21/2011 11:25:59 AM)
What a wonderful, refreshing, albeit sad thread! Mother Nature is amazing. Thanks hlen for sharing. dovie

Termyn8or -> RE: How Sad (8/21/2011 8:28:49 PM)
FR I think it's a damn good idea for someone to put up a facespace and mybook page for this tree. Along with other social networking sites. Get it an email address as well. I am not bullshitting here. What else ya gona do ? T^T

hlen5 -> RE: How Sad (8/22/2011 7:20:07 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: dovie What a wonderful, refreshing, albeit sad thread! Mother Nature is amazing. Thanks hlen for sharing. dovie You're welcome! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this was interesting.

sunshinemiss -> RE: How Sad (8/22/2011 7:39:38 AM)
This reminds me of the Ben Franklin tree. It was discovered in 1765 by some horticulturists who collected the plants and seeds. Every tree that is in the USA since is from that group of plants and seeds that were collected because all the others were wiped out. Franklinia alatamaha sounds exotic, and it truly deserves to be. Known as the Franklin tree, the lost camellia, or the lost Gordonia, it has perhaps the most romantic, mysterious past of any native American plant species. John Bartram and his son William discovered a modest grove of this unusually beautiful small tree in Georgia in 1765. By 1803, and perhaps a decade earlier, it had disappeared completely from the wild. Framklinia only survived due to the Bartrams’ collecting plants and seeds as avid horticulturists and propagating them in their Philadelphia garden the last quarter of the 18th century. All cultivated plants today descend from one or more of their collected specimens. http://www.terrain.org/articles/18/rowland.htm They believe that a fungus from cotton killed all the trees.

hlen5 -> RE: How Sad (8/22/2011 8:00:26 AM)
Thanks for posting this Sunny, it's another interesting article!

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