At least they get cute little parachutes
Dandelion cannon
Submitted 10 months ago by zedgeist@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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0ops@piefed.zip 10 months ago
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 10 months ago
bad similes are like really bad. bad metaphors are shipwrecks.
match@pawb.social 10 months ago
this one is going in my brain, thanks
Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Helping a plant get off… gross, now I’m sad
Ballistic babies… all is right in the world
What a couple of psycopaths.
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 10 months ago
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
also, pollen contains the male gametes I thought - how is that not dimorphic? Plants vary in their sexual strategies, but I do think it’s fair to think of pollen as containers of semen or sperm … or at least that’s always how it’s been presented anyway 🤷♀️
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Yeah, the last time this was posted I had to run to wikipedia because I was fuming at my memory being wrong. I even have vague memories from biology in college about the 8-cell formation of a fertilized plant ‘egg.’ The poster was likely trying to say that many plants don’t have ‘male-only’ and ‘female-only’ types, but at the very least, fruit bearing plants/trees (angiosperms, if I remember) have two sperm-equivalents in the pollen that drill down into the pistil of the flower and find the waiting gamete. One fertilizes, one becomes the food portion that we take sustenance from.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Baby shotgun
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 10 months ago
🎵Da-doo da-doo…🎵
dandelion@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
thank you 🥵😩😌
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Yeah
You’re blowing it
lvxferre@mander.xyz 10 months ago
A better analogy would be when you pick pollen from one flower and use it to fertilise another.
…I do this all the time with my pepper plants.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 10 months ago
What if I do want to blow a Dandelion? I’m fairly sure you can find depictions of that somewhere…
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
haha <shuffles nervously>
Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 10 months ago
Fox News: Breaking, the truth behind Planned Parenthood’s foetus cannons.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Oh man, my kids love to blow them and that stuff shoots everywhere.
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
ok, but just so you know, I did not consent
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
My kids will gladly blow you anyway. They don’t care. You’ll shoot your seed all over the neighborhood, and they’ll just smile and laugh.