Male trees being coomers
Comment on this one goes out to the urban planning nerds
dditty@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Now we just need to reincorporate female trees in urban areas to reduce the rampant pollen pollution caused by exclusively using male trees
FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 4 months ago
Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
What? Trees have genders? I guess I learned something new!
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
News to me too… And I think it might be wrong but I don’t know enough to say with confidence.
how I thought it works is that trees have male and female parts, but a single tree can have both parts. And some trees can self-pollinate.
My uneducated guess is that it depends on the species, some are sexed and some are hermaphrodite. That’s how it goes in the animal kingdom.
Rubanski@lemm.ee 4 months ago
ULPT: You can pretend your allergy is a cold and call in sick
flora_explora@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Well, it’s not that easy. Many plants have both female and male flower parts or flowers. And even if a species has individuals with only one of both sexes, then it might change over the season or over age. So there is really no way around pollen…
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The cleanup cost from the fruit is what’s prohibitive about that, leaving the fruit isn’t an option since it makes the sidewalks unusable from the mess, it rots and creates mold spores, pests, rodents, etc, they all thrive.
Theres a very good argument to why they shouldn’t introduce females everywhere.
grue@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Also, letting the homeless and working class forage for the fruit would be way too egalitarian and compassionate. Totally unacceptable!
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ideally the homeless wouldn’t exist in this scenario, and sure, the public can grab the bottom 8’? The public really can’t be trusted to safely use ladders, so that options right out.
I’m all for it, but realistically it’s not a feasible solution? It’s to costly, wheter it be to collect it and give to public safely, or to provide ladders and medical care for the people who inevitably fall.
grue@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My area has en entire non-profit org devoted to urban foraging, so maybe my perspective on its feasibility is a little different.
concrete-jungle.org
em2@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Free food that drops out of the trees? Get the fuck outta here.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I don’t think we are talking about actually edible fruits but I’m not sure
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
grue@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wow, that’s some real bullshit spin. I’m almost impressed.