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Tuesday, August 04, 2020
VIDEO: Man plants mystery seeds from China — here’s what happened
An Arkansas man who received one of the mysterious seed packages sent to thousands of US residents from China planted them on his property — and said the results are wild. “We … planted the seeds just to see what would happen,’’ Booneville resident Doyle Crenshawn told local CBS-TV affiliate KSFM.The plant is producing large white fruit from orange flowers that resemble those of a squash. “Every two weeks I’d come by and put Miracle-Gro on it, and they just started growing like crazy,’’ Crenshawn said.
The man planted the seeds before US agriculture officials issued a dire warning to recipients not to put them in the ground, the station said.
“Our concern is from an invasive-pest aspect: These seeds could introduce an invasive weed or an invasive insect pest or a plant disease,” Scott Bray of the Arkansas Department of Agriculture told the outlet. US residents in all 50 states reported getting the bizarre, unsolicited seed packages beginning last month...MORE
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