How old do herbs live? New research by Jitka Klimešová, from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The picture above portrays one of the ways to determine the age of living parts of a clonal plant: fi…

How old do herbs live? For #clonal plants, it’s tricky. An individual can be thousands of years old even if their organs are only a few years old. How to #age clonal plants reliably? Read ▶️ 1url.cz/4Jy2x #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #rhizome #ramet #mutation @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

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