We collectively squeeled with excitement this week to learn that this beautiful flowering plant, Silene Stenophylla, has been regenerated from a little seed burried by a (presumably cute) squirrel during the ice age in Siberia (how fantastical!) 32,000 years ago. whoa.
Scientists dug 28 below permafrost, through the ice, past layers of mammoth, bison and woolly rhinoceros (!) bones to get to the seeds.
I would love to see these growing on a window sill - or in a little delicate posy on a night stand. I haven't been able to find out whether or not they are scented however in my imagination they smell a little like jasmin mixed with fairy floss...
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