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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 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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    2. 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."

  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. Re:He found a *flower* by Reene · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So what, botany nerds/geeks don't count?

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  5. 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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