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Went for a drink with sons no.s 1 and 2 this week and could have done with inviting WGS because the conversation, as usual avoiding politics, was weird even by our standards. The topic was clones in nature (see, told you) - not a subject I'd contemplated before.
Consider: strawberries can send out runners which, when they touch the ground, grow their own roots. The single plant is thus rooted more than once. Cut the runner, and both rooted bits then exist separately, two plants now but genetically identical. Same goes for buttercups, some laurels, etc.
So the next time you eat a strawberry, the plant it comes from could, I guess, be older than you. Sort of.
Makes you wonder about dahlias (which I've grown before) and gladdies (which I haven't but whose bulbs are doing some really weird stuff.
