A germinated seed with a 3 mm / 1.25 cm root has left doctors astonished, not because it is from a rare species, but because of where they found it—in a 42-year-old Siberian man's eye.
The startling discovery was made by doctors in Yakutsk's Emergency Optometry Centre after the man, identified as Maxim Sleptsov, sought help after suffering persistent headaches, deteriorating vision, and eye inflammation for months, this, after a tree branch struck his face during a fishing and berry-picking trip in Abyysky district four months earlier.
