mythologyandhistory,
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Did you know that the Romans' favourite went ?

Besides honey & grape juice, meals in were flavoured with imported dates from Judea ().

Date palm fronds were symbolic of - lawyers pinned them to their doors & generals wore special "toga palmata".

Judean dates were also shelf-stable & delicious.

Sadly, by the 19th c., they had vanished.

Except for a few 2000-year-old seeds.

They were successfully germinated in 2020.

krans,
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@mythologyandhistory And once they mature in a few decades they may even produce some dates!

mythologyandhistory,
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@krans

ACTUALLY, they had a successful germination back in 2008 already, but as it needs pollination, they needed to grow the others first.

In 2021, they did actually have their first date from the OG seed!

I'll attach an image of the now quite big original seed:

Whisp,

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    mythologyandhistory,
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    @Whisp

    Aw thank you!

    I'm German, so of course all hilarity is an accident ;)

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