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Extinct Wildflower Found In California

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the welcome-back dept.

Del writes "A Berkeley graduate student found the pink wildflower Eriogonom truncatum, known as the Mount Diablo buckwheat. The flower hasn't been seen for 70 years and has been rediscovered on the flanks of Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County."

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  1. The headline is wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not really extinct. It can be found in California.

    1. Re:The headline is wrong by Kinky+Bass+Junk · · Score: 4, Funny

      "The Flower Previously Known as 'Extinct'"
      Would be a much radder headline.

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    2. Re:The headline is wrong by eclectro · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's not really extinct. It can be found in California.

      No, submitter is right. By time you read the headline everybody will have been out to get one for themselves. It is indeed extinct now.

      It was doomed anyway by global warming and whatnot.

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    3. Re:The headline is wrong by jimi+the+hippie · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dateline California: Experts crap their pants when they discover the Mt Diablo Buckwheat growing on the side of Mt Diablo. To quote one horticologist, "We thought it was extinct, afterall in the previous 70 years we have not discovered a single one. Then all of a sudden our intern Steve suggested looking around its namesake mountain. Low and behold it was there after all, you should have seen the look on my face when I had to pay Steve that 20 bucks I bet him."

    4. Re:The headline is wrong by TRS80NT · · Score: 3, Funny

      Good point, jimi. What are the odds of finding Mt. Diablo buckwheat ON Mt. Diablo? It's like what were the odds of Lou Gehrig getting Lou Gehrig's Disease.

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    5. Re:The headline is wrong by dapyx · · Score: 3, Funny

      That would be real-life slashdotting

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    6. Re:The headline is wrong by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 4, Funny

      Does that mean that we slashdoted the flower? ;-)

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  2. This just in by el_womble · · Score: 5, Funny

    In a rare interview Eriogonom truncatum states "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

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  3. Why is this news for nerds? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "When I took people out to see it, they just walked right by it," Park said. "They couldn't grok that the thing could be so small and dainty."

    Oh.

  4. Is there anything we can do? by Council · · Score: 3, Funny
    Oh my God.
    Following a different routine from his normal survey, he stumbled across the plants - about 20 in all - in full bloom
    We must hope that these 20 are the only ones. I hope that they'll move quickly enough to wipe out this terrible scourge once and for all.
    "When I took people out to see it, they just walked right by it," Park said. "They couldn't grok that the thing could be so small and dainty."
    We never see these horrors coming because deep down, we're just too good to imagine these things growing in our own backyards. We've been blind for too long.
    "It was very exciting, and I've spent a few weeks being stunned over this thing," he said. "But I'll be glad when it's over."
    We all will, Michael, we all will. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
    "At this point, it is really tenuous. Here, it's still hanging on by its fingernails, and the publicity alone could be enough to wipe it out again."
    We can only pray.
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  5. Oh the irony by Adrilla · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then the ivory-billed woodpecker thought to also be extinct ate it.

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  6. keep it up by poor_boi · · Score: 3, Funny

    1 down, 831 to go.

  7. Quick! by bigmouth_strikes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone make this a geocache spot so we can stampede it into extinction once and for all!

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  8. hmm by davidmcg · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is now extinct again when scientists picked it and realised they couldn't keep it alive by putting into a glass of water.

  9. Re:He found a *flower* by hey! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please tell us more facts about the future.

    Sure, no problem. Here's a couple:

    You still aren't going to be able to buy a flying car. You will, however, be able to invest in a company which intends to build one.

    Some time between 2015 to 2025, expect the cadre of kids now in pre-school to adopt a musical style that current fans of rap will find incomprehensible and offsensive.

    Perhaps they can be used to ensure that our kids don't have to work at all...

    Well, by the standards of my grandparents and even my parents, what I do hardly counts as work, because it doesn't involve the daily risk of death and dismemberment and is not brutally punishing on my body. I expect that by my grandchildren's time, work will look like hanging around in coffee shop and chatting.

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  10. Re:In other news... by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 3, Funny


    In other other news, studies show that any guy using "grok" as part of his normal vocabulary will not have a girlfriend.

  11. The headline is right by rumblin'rabbit · · Score: 4, Funny
    No, it's extinct

    And delicious (burp).