" Budding horticulturalists flocked to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) like bees to a honey pot to welcome one of the world’s rarest and oldest trees. "
"The Wollemi Pine, a survivor from the dinosaur age and long thought by experts to have been extinct for more than two million years, marked its grand arrival at the hothouse with a viewing ceremony, attended by a rapt group of local students. "
"Garden officials and executive officers presided over its installation into BBG’s permanent plant collection in front of first grader students from Public School 184, 273 Newport Street. "
"The diminutive tree, which will be nurtured by the BBG and used in its community ... read the whole article
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