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Chicago Field Museum to showcase Pong Pong tree seeds that featured in "The White Lotus" season 3
If you've been watching "The White Lotus" you probably remember a tree with poisonous seeds featured around the Thai resort ...
From the Archives | Preserving the legacy of the survivor tree
No one knows just how long the survivor tree has marked time in the parking lot across from the Murra site, 75 years, ...
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Seeds from UAE taken to the Arctic, stored in world's most protected vault
Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. Among the seeds are those from the iconic Ghaf tree, the UAE's national symbol, chosen for their remarkable resilience to ...
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'The White Lotus' deadly pong-pong seed gets star treatment at Field Museum
The seeds are part of the poison plant collection at the museum. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share The show might be called “The White Lotus” but it’s the flowering pong-pong tree that’s ...
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'Let's preserve nature's most vulnerable this Indigenous Tree Day'
Thousands of people in 26 sites across 12 African countries heeded the call of ITD founder Dr Victor Nsereko Wantate and the African Tree Seeds Group to preserve Africa’s green endangered species. The ...
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At a Missouri state tree nursery, millions of seedlings and cases of ... hot sauce?
The 100-acre tree nursery at George O. White State Forest, in Licking, Missouri, serves 13,000 customers a year — in the Show ...
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See the poison plant used in ‘The White Lotus’ at The Field Museum
Kimberly Hansen, Collections Manager of Flowering Plants, The Field Museum, joins John Williams to talk about her work at the Field Museum, the now famous poison pong-pong tree plant that was featured ...