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Giant Palm Tree Can Be Seen From Space - Madagascar


Science & Tech  (tags: Madagascar, palm, new species, species, find, botany, discovery )

Chrissy
- 678 days ago - news.com.au
BOTANISTS say they have identified a new species of palm that is so enormous it can be spotted from space and whose bizarre life cycle requires the plant to kill itself after it has flowered. The gigantic, pyramid-shaped plant was discovered accidentally
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Nuria Coe (0)
Thursday January 17, 2008, 6:02 pm
I just saw the picture and it doesn't seem to be THAT big.
 
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