It’s actually closer to firing fully formed babies out of a cannon and hoping they land close enough to each other to have sex and then their kid grows into a fern again
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Wren@lemmy.today 2 days ago
They airdrop babie parts that grow into genitals to have sex with themselves to make themselves, if I recall correctly.
TessaRekt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 days ago
That’s basically correct, yes! The baby parts are the gametophytes and they then use their male and female parts to produce a new zygote, which will grow into a sporophyte. This sporophyte is what we know as a fern. It will produce and finally release many many spores, which are the “airdrop baby parts”.
SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space 2 days ago
IIRC is my most reliable source of 2026
UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Sometimes I click the links AI gives back as source and usually the website has nothing to do with the information I’m given.