a Magnolia seed that survived for 2000 years to germinate and yield a
small tree.

Iris Cohen schreef
Magnolia is a primitive dicot, but I would hardly call it a primitive
plant.

Iris,

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Magnolia is indeed a primitive Angiosperm (not sure about dicot), but with
both "primitive" and "plant" undefined this statement is as good as any, and
at least is informative?
PvR