Comment on Wacky ass sporophiles

sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Guess I’m an anime now

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fern

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      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I just spent 20 minutes trying to put anime eyes PNG on Kevin James but the internet is dead and you can no longer do that for free. You’re just going to have to imagine it based on the context

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• stray@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not a botanist, but their tadpoles swim. Plants without this feature will relocate the sperm themselves.

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  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh sick! Okay thanks for the fern facts. 👈😎👈

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• anzo@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I studied biology and one thing I like about ferns is that they have these “dots” under their “leaves” that once mature drops a powder of spores that creates new ferns… Don’t ask me why I like it, I just do. I find it simple and to the point. You can simply leave a pot with earth under a fern and then you will find a baby developing there. Just like magic, and very elegant.

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  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Okay that’s pretty cool. Doesn’t follow what I thought was plant logic at all

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  idk if there are other cool parts, but the one i’m aware of is that their jizzulate is asexual, basically clones (i think). The ferns shed spores which grow into what looks like a leaf on the ground, then those “leaves” have their own more normal sex cells which do the usual thing, which then grow into actual ferns from the surface of the “leaf”.
  It’s fucking wild.

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  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Okay that is barely even plant behavior. Hella cool though

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      turns out life doesn’t care what we think, and will merrily do whatever the fuck it feels like

      there’s a plant that can just magically grow to look like whatever other plants are near it, some-fucking-how

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