At least they get cute little parachutes
Dandelion cannon
Submitted 3 weeks ago by zedgeist@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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0ops@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
bad similes are like really bad. bad metaphors are shipwrecks.
match@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
this one is going in my brain, thanks
Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Baby shotgun
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
🎵Da-doo da-doo…🎵
dandelion@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
thank you 🥵😩😌
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yeah
You’re blowing it
lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
haha <shuffles nervously>
Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 3 weeks ago
Fox News: Breaking, the truth behind Planned Parenthood’s foetus cannons.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Oh man, my kids love to blow them and that stuff shoots everywhere.
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
ok, but just so you know, I did not consent
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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.