Extinct Wildflower Found In California

Del writes "A Berkeley graduate student found the pink wildflower Eriogonom truncatum, known as the Mount Diablo buckwheat. The flower hasn't been seen for 70 years and has been rediscovered on the flanks of Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County."

The headline is wrong

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not really extinct. It can be found in California.

This just in

[el_womble]

In a rare interview Eriogonom truncatum states "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

Why is this news for nerds?

[Anonymous Coward]

"When I took people out to see it, they just walked right by it," Park said. "They couldn't grok that the thing could be so small and dainty."

Oh.

Re:The headline is wrong

[Kinky Bass Junk]

"The Flower Previously Known as 'Extinct'"
Would be a much radder headline.

Re:He found a *flower*

[0x461FAB0BD7D2]

He's a Berkeley grad student. It's quite obvious what he's going to do with the flower: get Amit Singh to install BSD (naturally) on it.

Is there anything we can do?

[Council]

Oh my God.

Following a different routine from his normal survey, he stumbled across the plants - about 20 in all - in full bloom

We must hope that these 20 are the only ones. I hope that they'll move quickly enough to wipe out this terrible scourge once and for all.

"When I took people out to see it, they just walked right by it," Park said. "They couldn't grok that the thing could be so small and dainty."

We never see these horrors coming because deep down, we're just too good to imagine these things growing in our own backyards. We've been blind for too long.

"It was very exciting, and I've spent a few weeks being stunned over this thing," he said. "But I'll be glad when it's over."

We all will, Michael, we all will. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

"At this point, it is really tenuous. Here, it's still hanging on by its fingernails, and the publicity alone could be enough to wipe it out again."

We can only pray.

Oh the irony

[Adrilla]

Then the ivory-billed woodpecker [wikipedia.org] thought to also be extinct ate it.

keep it up

[poor_boi]

1 down, 831 to go. [redlist.org]

Quick!

[bigmouth_strikes]

Someone make this a geocache spot so we can stampede it into extinction once and for all!

Re:New Headline: Wildflowers invent time travel!!

[dbolger]

You fool, John Titor brought them back on the soles of his shoes.

Wait, how far back did he go again?

hmm

[davidmcg]

It is now extinct again when scientists picked it and realised they couldn't keep it alive by putting into a glass of water.

Quick get the weedkiller!

[amazeranand]

/. Headline cannot be wrong. Get some napalm or a molotov if u have any too...

Re:The headline is wrong

[eclectro]

It's not really extinct. It can be found in California.

No, submitter is right. By time you read the headline everybody will have been out to get one for themselves. It is indeed extinct now.

It was doomed anyway by global warming and whatnot.

In other news...

[xAXISx]

the Berkeley graduate student's girlfriend was flattered with the flower her boyfriend gave her.

Amazing Coincidence

[Anonymous Coward]

What luck! Imagine finding thought to be extinct Mount Diablo buckwheat on the slopes of Mount Diablo? That's got to be one for the record books!

Re:The headline is wrong

[jimi the hippie]

Dateline California: Experts crap their pants when they discover the Mt Diablo Buckwheat growing on the side of Mt Diablo. To quote one horticologist, "We thought it was extinct, afterall in the previous 70 years we have not discovered a single one. Then all of a sudden our intern Steve suggested looking around its namesake mountain. Low and behold it was there after all, you should have seen the look on my face when I had to pay Steve that 20 bucks I bet him."

Re:He found a *flower*

[hey!]

Please tell us more facts about the future.

Sure, no problem. Here's a couple:

You still aren't going to be able to buy a flying car. You will, however, be able to invest in a company which intends to build one.

Some time between 2015 to 2025, expect the cadre of kids now in pre-school to adopt a musical style that current fans of rap will find incomprehensible and offsensive.

Perhaps they can be used to ensure that our kids don't have to work at all...

Well, by the standards of my grandparents and even my parents, what I do hardly counts as work, because it doesn't involve the daily risk of death and dismemberment and is not brutally punishing on my body. I expect that by my grandchildren's time, work will look like hanging around in coffee shop and chatting.

Re:Breaking News

[aussie_a]

And there was also a Time Traveller convention. Co-incidence? I think not.

Re:Oh the irony

[Gaewyn L Knight]

and died because it is poisonous to ivory-billed woodpeckers. :}

Re:The headline is wrong

[TRS80NT]

Good point, jimi. What are the odds of finding Mt. Diablo buckwheat ON Mt. Diablo? It's like what were the odds of Lou Gehrig getting Lou Gehrig's Disease.

Re:This just in i'm a wanker

[Nutria]

Eriogonom = what the fuck does that mean.

Use the Google, Mr. Hydrocephalic.

Every hit on "Eriogonom truncatum" tells you what it is.

Re:Was it rediscovered OR did it re-evolve?

[espek]

You mean what has traditionally been referred to as God? Looks like the marketing department has gotten their hands on that too and turned it into: "Intelligent Design is a scalable, multi-platform metaphysical groupware solution."

Re:The headline is wrong

[dapyx]

That would be real-life slashdotting

Re:In other news...

[Call Me Black Cloud]

In other other news, studies show that any guy using "grok" as part of his normal vocabulary will not have a girlfriend.

Re:Monty Python and the Mount Diablo Buckwheat

[wootest]

No, it was pushing up the daisies.

Re:Why is this news for nerds?

[operagost]

"Uh, where is that buckwheat again?"

"It's right over there, you ninny."

"I still don't see it ..."

"Careful, you moron! No!"

*crunch*

Slashdot headline: "Extinct Wildflower Found in California is Extinct Again."

The headline is right

[rumblin'rabbit]

No, it's extinct

And delicious (burp).

Re:He found a *flower*

[Maul]

Not to mention the fact that people can barely drive the cars that don't fly.

Don't be so sure...

[DaveJay]

Don't be so sure this is actually the once-thought-extinct flower they say it is, because fact-checking doesn't seem to be this article-writer's strong point: notice that the caption on the picture of what is clearly a bee sitting on the flower says that it is "a fly".

Of course, that may be the rare and once-thought-extinct beefly, who mimicks bees the same way a viceroy butterfly mimics monarch butterflies...

I have rediscovered the beefly! Hooray for me!

Re:messing with evolution

[StalinsNotDead]

once they get to the sea, they better have good stamina because after that much longer run to the water they still have to elude marine prey.

I think you meant predators. As eluding prey would mean hiding from your food source.

Re:The headline is wrong

[GNUALMAFUERTE]

Does that mean that we slashdoted the flower? ;-)