De-extinction event: York groundsel, eradicated in wild, re-established there from seeds

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Farm raised murder-turkeys are probably delicious, but I doubt the Millennium Seed Bank has any on tap. They seem more focused on plants.

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Groudsel is an medicinal herb. I wonder if anyone still uses it.
GROUNDSEL: Overview, Uses, Side Effects, Precautions, Interactions, Dosing and Reviews.
It’s poisonous and also grows very fast so it is considered a pest plant by gardeners and landscapers. Yeah! I guess.

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Where can you buy velociraptor seeds?

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To explain the Latin name Senecio eboracensis, the Roman name for York was Eboracum. I’m not a Latin scholar, it’s one of the few things I learned as an undergraduate in that city in the early 1990s.

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