Judean date palm human-assisted germination of a seed (the claim in 2012 of a 32,000-year-old arctic flower involved fruit tissue rather than a seed). The palm, named Methuselah (not to be confused with a bristlecone pine tree of the same name), was about tall in June 2008. , it is reported at high, having been transplanted from pot to earth. By May 2015, the palm was tall and was producing pollen. Even if the pollination of a female Judean date palm, grown of a seed from the same batch, with Methuselah's pollen should succeed, the resulting fruit would not represent the recreation of
Palm Trees in the Snow Palm Trees in the Snow Palm Trees in the Snow () is a 2015 Spanish romantic drama film directed by Fernando González Molina. The screenplay is based on the novel of the same name, "Palmeras en la nieve", by Luz Gabás. Kilian is a young man from the mountains of Huesca who, in 1954, returns to the island of Fernando Pó (present Bioko), where he was born. He joins his father Antón and his brother Jacobo. They are one of many of families of the Spanish colonialists who harvest cocoa. The movie opens in 1968 with Killian and Bisila making