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• Technus@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Does the genus name literally translate to “shapeless dick”?

  God, I love scientists.

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “Lol weird dick 😂😂😂”

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• FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Memes aside, the plant heats up? Wtf how?

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This got me interested too and apparently aroids as a family are specialized on doing this.

    In lieu of their normal metabolic pathway, which ends in the production of ATP, the mitochondria switch over to a pathway called the “Alternative Oxidase Metabolic Pathway.” When this happens, the mitochondria start burning sugars using oxygen as a fuel source. This form of respiration produces heat.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      When this happens, the mitochondria start burning sugars using oxygen as a fuel source

      That’s also (almost?) universal in human cancers

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    • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks! That’s crazy. Evolution has resulted in some weird shit

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• HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The hodler plant is in full bloom.

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• very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Amorpho what now?

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• Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Satoshi Nakamoto is a plant!

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