Thread: Strange News

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Very strange news.

Hey Denier, you were one of the first with an off-topic remark and by the way You have yet to address the question.....

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Hey. I have a question for you that I know the answer to (TC history).

There’s another thread I started years ago which I am the primary contributor.

“Any doubts about Climate Change?”

Why don’t we see more than one post from you on the subject?

I know you’re a teacher,……..just hope you don’t teach science.

Originally Posted by beachbound

Yours are not “posts”. They’re just cut-and-paste crap, and highlight videos, page, after page, of mind-numbing highlight videos.

I did enjoy your first thread in the sports section and think you should continue with more threads.

Originally Posted by beachbound

Minor League

Kind of fitting

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Strange news article…..

‘Mind-boggling’ palm that flowers and fruits underground thrills scientists

New species named Pinanga subterranea as Kew botanists admit they have no idea how its flowers are pollinated

A new-to-science palm species has been discovered in Borneo with the remarkable ability to flower and fruit underground. How the rare palm – named Pinanga subterranea – has survived is a mystery, as most plants have evolved to develop their flowers and fruit above ground to facilitate pollination and the dispersal of seeds.

“Pinanga subterranea is the only known species of palm to flower and fruit below ground,” said Dr Benedikt Kuhnhäuser, a future leader fellow at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, who was part of the research team that collected specimens and ascertained that it was a new species. “Flowering and fruiting below ground is mind-boggling and seemingly paradoxical because they appear to prevent pollination and dispersal. We now know bearded pigs eat and disperse Pinanga subterranea’s fruits, but we’ve yet to find out how and by whom the flowers are pollinated.”

Only a very small number of plant species have evolved to flower or fruit underground. But only one other plant is thought to do both. Exclusive flowering and fruiting below ground, as discovered in Pinanga subterranea, is incredibly rare,” said Kuhnhäuser. “We’re only aware of one other plant that does that: the small underground orchid genus rhizanthella.”

Kew’s research team were first alerted to the plant’s presence by Dr Paul Chai, a Malaysian botanist, who encountered the palm in 1997 during a visit to Lanjak Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary in Sarawak. As well as studying the plants, Kew’s team reviewed extensive reference collections of palms in botanical institutions in Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as at Kew. “Pinanga subterranea has separate male and female flowers in little clusters,” said Kuhnhäuser. “So far, we’ve only seen the female flowers, which are greenish-white and inconspicuous. The fruit is pale white when young, but bright red when ripe and up to two centimetres in size.”

Native to the tropical island of Borneo in south-east Asia, the one-of-a-kind palm was also found in Kalimantan in Indonesia.

Agusti Randi, an Indonesian researcher at the National University of Singapore and lead author of a new report in Palms (the Journal of the International Palm Society) and Plants, People, Planet, first saw the palm in Kalimantan in 2017. “I realised the stems, flowers and fruit were underground after the soil was dug up by boars, so it was as if the boars guided me to find this palm,” Randi said.

After meticulously comparing specimens with every other known Bornean species of the genus, Randi, an expert on Pinanga palms, helped to make the case that it was a novel species, later flying to the UK to collaborate with Kew. All the researchers from Indonesia, Malaysia and Kew then teamed up to describe the palm as new-to-science and publish their findings together.

^Answer the question,.....Denier.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

^So you believe human activity is the cause of the increased warming we are seeing today?

Because you have stated differently at TC in the past and you’re obfuscating now.

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Obfuscating again.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

I just had a quick look at the thread. I posted 20+ replies on it. So your data about my posting is inaccurate.

And all denying the science.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Nope, you'd have to have little understanding of geological history and science.

Here they are. Get reading c+p king.

But I just noticed a bigger problem. Only poster #2 on that thread behind Hb. Oh, the shame. Get posting, son.