It’s possible you’ll recall that Linda and I acquire prehistoric crops: residing survivors from the time when dinosaurs nonetheless roamed the Earth! We’ve got a lot of Cycads, a Wollemi Pine, a big Tree Fern, an Araucaria, a number of Horsetails, Metasequoias and so forth. The species that many individuals are shocked to seek out is a consultant of an equally historic group is the Magnolia. Imagine it or not these are among the many oldest flowering crops, and 100 million years in the past they grew throughout a lot of North America and Europe!
One tell-tale characteristic that betrays their primitive origin is the truth that their stunning flowers – like most historic crops – produce a seed-bearing cone: evaluate it to the opposite examples from our backyard within the photograph under.
