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	custard smelling desert plant found in Britain

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9-19-2008 9:25 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/de2e66c4-99ef-49f8-9776-e4033feb0c39/99417E05-4955-4039-94D6-711B46307C69/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1058316/Prehistoric-custard-smelling-plant-South-American-desert-Britain.html?ITO=1490" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1058316/Prehistoric-custard-smelling-plant-South-American-desert-Britain.html?ITO=1490" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailymail.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1058316/Prehistoric-custard-smelling-plant-South-American-desert-Britain.html?ITO=1490"><P>Stunned horticulturists have discovered an 'extremely rare' prehistoric plant that has defied the UK climate and thrived in Britain. <BR /></P><P>The prickly Anchor Plant - also know as the Crucifix Tree - is usually only found in the fierce heat and scorching deserts of South America.</P><P>Covered in sharp thorns, the tree - which smells bizarrely of custard -  was prominent in the arid prehistoric period and has always been thought unable to survive Britain's cold winters.</P><P>But the plant has been found thriving obscured from view under other shrubs at the Trenance Gardens in Newquay, Cornwall.</P><P>Experts say the plant is at least 30 years old but has gone unnoticed in the public gardens since the 1960s or 1970s.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1058316/Prehistoric-custard-smelling-plant-South-American-desert-Britain.html?ITO=1490">Staff are now trying to preserve the plant which was found leaning with signs of 'root heave' - a condition caused when a tree is battered by wind.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1058316/Prehistoric-custard-smelling-plant-South-American-desert-Britain.html?ITO=1490">The shrub has small cream coloured, fragrant flowers at the stem which bloom in late summer or autumn.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1058316/Prehistoric-custard-smelling-plant-South-American-desert-Britain.html?ITO=1490"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/A224395D-089F-4DFC-A1AC-0E0999FB4424" alt="Anchor Plant" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/99417E05-4955-4039-94D6-711B46307C69/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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