Recently, the famous Russian "Pravda" published such reports of a miracle: the Russian city of Izhevsk, a 28-year-old Artyom Sidorkin young men because of pain in the lungs, Hemoptysis to medical treatment. doctor to determine the length of his lungs tumor , but after resection surgery, only to find the so-called "tumor", it was a 5 cm high spruce seedlings. Dr. Yu Shi speculation may be the young man had accidentally breath of a spruce seed the lungs, resulting in seed germination in the lungs of his.

this something different things, of course, not only in Russia's domestic dissemination. Some European and American countries media also reproduced --- Of course, most of them are reproduced from skeptical attitude. Some people even speculated that it was an out-and-out of the Fool's Day joke, as "Pravda" This news is published in the April 14, which is exactly one day old Russia of April 1. Take this report as a joke, the reason is that this story too many loopholes in it. Only from the perspective of botany, we can put forward many questions.

spruce (Pinaceae belong to) is a general term used to describe dozens of trees. Although its name里带a "Sequoia," the word is, however, the cedar cultivated widely in the South (in the latest classification system, and Cupressaceae are) far from, not only in different subjects and different mettle. Pine is a warm-hi species, difficult to grow in the north. Hi spruce is cold, in the South can only be found in the high mountains in the north-east and the lowland forests of Siberia are everywhere.

precisely because of the environment to adapt to the cold, spruce required for seed germination temperature was not high. For example, the red spruce in northeastern China, the seeds in about 6 â„