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
Heart of palm Heart of palm Heart of palm is a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees (notably coconut ("Cocos nucifera"), juçara ("Euterpe edulis"), Açaí palm ("Euterpe oleracea"), palmetto ("Sabal" spp.), and peach palm. Harvesting of many uncultivated or wild single-stemmed palms results in palm tree death (e.g. "Geonoma edulis"). However, other palm species are clonal or multi-stemmed plants (e.g. "Prestoea acuminata", "Euterpe oleracea") and moderate harvesting will not kill the entire clonal palm. Heart of palm may be eaten on its own, and often it is eaten in a salad. An alternative to wild heart