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A Tree Grows in Brooklung
By Chicago Typewriter | April 13, 2009
This story makes me feel better about the fungus growing around my tub. From the linked FoxNews.com site:
Surgeons in Russia thought they were going to remove a cancerous tumor from a 28-year-old patient – but instead they found a 5-centimeter tree growing inside his lung.
There are about a dozen questions I have here, so here’s a random selection of them:
1) Did the warmth and moisture in the patient’s lungs make trigger the growth event in the seed?
4) Roots are gravitropic, so did the roots point towards his back (the direction of gravity when he’s sleeping) or to his feet (the direction of gravity in his waking life)?
9) Did he save the seedling? Because that would be the greatest story ever about the tree in the front yard. You’ve basically been the Axolotl Tank for a tree.
For the record, it was a spruce.
UPDATE (2008-04-13 17:13): Other sources have the tree listed as a fir tree. Bonus: There’s a (possibly gross) picture in that article!
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June 9th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I had a bonsai tree I named “Spruce Lee”…