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Fruitful harvest of unseeded rooftop colonies

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Thirty plant species make their home on the Big Apple's roofs.

What colour is New York City? Many would say grey, the colour of cold, inanimate concrete. But not Jason Aloisio, a graduate student at the city's Fordham University. His eye catches all the green: lawns, gardens, overgrown empty lots and weeds in sidewalk cracks. He even sees the city's air as swirling with life. And to prove it, he has grown gardens on the city's rooftops without planting a single seed.

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Marris, E. Fruitful harvest of unseeded rooftop colonies. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.471

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