[RightWhale]

This is amazing. Seed packets often say something like guaranteed to sprout but you might assume they would not guarantee seeds more than a year old.

[TheOtherOne]

"Lotus seeds of about 1,200 years of age have been sprouted in China, and after the Nazis bombed London's Natural History Museum in World War II and a lot of water was used to put out the fire, seeds of 500 years of age also germinated."

I find it facinating that this type of fact never appears until this type of story. I never heard about any of this.