We underpromised and overdelivered: You wanted 100 facts, we gave you that and a bit more over the span of 4 episodes. This is batch 2: 26 to 50. We have trees, marine microorganisms, old trees, lasers and a plant that cannot die.

• A Plant That ‘Cannot Die’ Reveals Its Genetic Secrets
•  Paleopolyploidy
• Data base of genome duplication
• Diatom
•  Coccolithophore
•  Chlorophyll Map
•  The Many Unexpected Jobs of the Clubmoss Spore
•  Prometheus (tree)
•  Donald Rusk Currey 
• [Photos] Here is Jindai-zakura, Japan’s oldest cherry tree !
• Olive tree of Vouves
• 2,500-Year-Old Ancient Olive Tree Burned Down in Evia Fires in Greece
• What are karrikins and how were they ‘discovered’ by plants? – BMC Biology 
• (PDF) Growth and development of Arabidopsis thaliana under single-wavelength red and blue laser light
• The Latest Development of Laser Application Research in Plant Factory
•  Drunken trees
•  Important phenologists – Nature’s Calendar
•  Apricot kernels and apple and pear seeds are unsafe to eat
• A lesson in cancer quackery

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