Primitive-plant uber-geek's heart belongs to lycopods
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 08:03
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—When Jeff Benca moved to Berkeley last month, he came so loaded with valuables he had to rent a truck. Make that a cargo van, air-conditioned to accommodate its contents—thousands of plant starts, many of them incredibly rare and entirely new to cultivation, all of them members of primeval lineages, packed bare-root in Ziploc bags.