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Wanted: Female Date Tree To Save 2,000-Year-Old Species

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 there’s fresh hope he could sire a revival of his extinct species – he’s potent. Now ten years old, the tree…