The 12,000-year-old Plant that Barely Grows
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A Creosote plant in the Mojave desert is over 12,000 years old.
The creosote bush is one of the slowest growing plants documented, an essential survival strategy in an arid desert. It's only active for very brief periods, growing during a rare rainfall. David Attenborough visited the same bush in 1982, where it looked almost identical - since then, the bush has only grown a single inch!
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The 12,000-year-old Plant that Barely Grows
Clip: Episode 4 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
The creosote bush is one of the slowest growing plants documented, an essential survival strategy in an arid desert. It's only active for very brief periods, growing during a rare rainfall. David Attenborough visited the same bush in 1982, where it looked almost identical - since then, the bush has only grown a single inch!
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