Post by asiaticdarkperson on Dec 23, 2012 16:32:07 GMT -5
1. How did the seedless banana achieve pan-tropical distribution before 10,000BC?
2. The majority of grapevines don't yield viable seeds, and thus will not grow from seed. (much less the seedless varieties) They can only be propagated via cuttings. Where did the first cuttings come from? (This applies to a lot of modern fruit trees. e.g. Planting a peach seed will not result in a tree that bears the original peaches; you need to graft a scion (a bud) from the original tree onto the new rootstock. So, where did the first scion come from?)
3. We've got this fruit over here called the "Fig-Peach." (åáæ ÇäÌیÑی) The tree looks like a peach but the fruit is supposedly a cross between a fig and a peach. This tree is no modern development. I can't even begin to comprehend how this was accomplished. (This one never produces viable seeds either; it's always propagated via grafting, which means that every living fig-peach tree today is essentially the same individual.)
4. Salvia Divinorum, the holy plant of the Mazatecs, endemic to the Sierra Mazateca, rarely produces viable seeds. According to the academics, this plant is usually categorized as a cultigen or a hybrid. But they have no idea what two plants were hybridised. And in modern botanical terms, cultigen usually means "we have no idea where this came from."
This stuff's been bugging me for years.
2. The majority of grapevines don't yield viable seeds, and thus will not grow from seed. (much less the seedless varieties) They can only be propagated via cuttings. Where did the first cuttings come from? (This applies to a lot of modern fruit trees. e.g. Planting a peach seed will not result in a tree that bears the original peaches; you need to graft a scion (a bud) from the original tree onto the new rootstock. So, where did the first scion come from?)
3. We've got this fruit over here called the "Fig-Peach." (åáæ ÇäÌیÑی) The tree looks like a peach but the fruit is supposedly a cross between a fig and a peach. This tree is no modern development. I can't even begin to comprehend how this was accomplished. (This one never produces viable seeds either; it's always propagated via grafting, which means that every living fig-peach tree today is essentially the same individual.)
4. Salvia Divinorum, the holy plant of the Mazatecs, endemic to the Sierra Mazateca, rarely produces viable seeds. According to the academics, this plant is usually categorized as a cultigen or a hybrid. But they have no idea what two plants were hybridised. And in modern botanical terms, cultigen usually means "we have no idea where this came from."
This stuff's been bugging me for years.