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Attack of the Clones: How Britain came to be full of millions of identical trees

49 month ago

plasticbag : Attack of the Clones: How Britain came to be full of millions of identical trees - 25 million English elms died from Dutch elm disease in the 1970s, and the reason? Turns out that every single tree was a clone of a single elm introduced by the Romans...

Tags : biodiversity biology britain clone disease dutchelmdisease england nature romans rome tree uk

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