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The 'Olympian' was found to be something unique," says Malli Aradhya, a geneticist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Clonal Germplasm Repository near Davis. Aradhya says the new fig's molecular work was done by his laboratory using cuttings brought in by retired biologist Denny McGaughy, who discovered the tree and named it after the city where it stands in a sheltered location. Its genetic makeup did not match any of the 270 fig varieties in stock. [A] newly discovered fig variety that survives, and even thrives, in Washington state's arctic environs. (1111)

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The 'Olympian' was found to be something unique," says Malli Aradhya, a geneticist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Clonal Germplasm Repository near Davis. Aradhya says the new fig's molecular work was done by his laboratory using cuttings brought in by retired biologist Denny McGaughy, who discovered the tree and named it after the city where it stands in a sheltered location. Its genetic makeup did not match any of the 270 fig varieties in stock. [A] newly discovered fig variety that survives, and even thrives, in Washington state's arctic environs. (1111)