I love talking with kids in that phase. The raw curiosity and interest in the mundane is so refreshing.
Sometimes I feel like many adults hate to learn new stuff and even get offended by the idea. It’s heartbreaking seeing those interact with inquisitive children, when they answer honest curiosity with indifference or worse anger.
icerunner_origin@startrek.website 1 week ago
Do plants die of old age though? Now that question has been put in my head, I need to know.
Be back in a bit, going down a rabbit hole.
icerunner_origin@startrek.website 1 week ago
Given the right conditions, some plants can live indefinitely. Others die shortly after seeding.
Malgas@beehaw.org 1 week ago
There’s a bristlecone pine tree in the White Mountains of California that is nearly 5000 years old.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Depends how you look at it. If you keep raising off-shoots from cuttings, you are essentially producing extensions of the very same plant and you can do that indefinitely. An individual plant will eventually die tho as they are not biologically immortal like some lobsters fot example.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Tell me more about these lobsters
Kanda@reddthat.com 1 week ago
So… Do they?
9point6@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Should we send someone after him?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Vine plants are especially weird.
Late2TheParty@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You gotta tell us some fun things you learned!
frank@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Subscribe to plant facts
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
wait until you get to the part about the Ginkgo tree
icerunner_origin@startrek.website 1 week ago
It is the horseshoe crab of trees