At least they get cute little parachutes
Dandelion cannon
Submitted 2 months ago by zedgeist@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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0ops@piefed.zip 2 months ago
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 2 months ago
bad similes are like really bad. bad metaphors are shipwrecks.
match@pawb.social 2 months ago
this one is going in my brain, thanks
Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 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 2 months ago
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 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 2 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 2 months ago
Baby shotgun
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 months ago
🎵Da-doo da-doo…🎵
dandelion@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
thank you 🥵😩😌
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Yeah
You’re blowing it
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 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 2 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 2 months ago
haha <shuffles nervously>
Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
Fox News: Breaking, the truth behind Planned Parenthood’s foetus cannons.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Oh man, my kids love to blow them and that stuff shoots everywhere.
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
ok, but just so you know, I did not consent
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 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.