Plant Protection

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  some will cause delerium, in the same genus, family that cause hallicinations, they can destroy the liver, hence the destroying angels.

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• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I love chilli’s for this. They’ve developed spiciness to discourage getting eaten. We made an entire fucking menu out of it.

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  • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    See also caffeine.

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    • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      and nicotine and cocaine

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• BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve spoken to the mushrooms about this several times, they get us all in the end anyway so they think it’s funny.

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Caffeine is an insecticide plants invented to not get eaten by bugs.

  Now manthings farm those plants.

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Plant?

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  • MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah I didn’t realize that they were not pants until after I made the post. Ooopsie.

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    • djmikeale@feddit.dk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To be fair, I think it fits the format quite well - would the high guy know mushrooms aren’t plants? We don’t know!

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• Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Look at hot peppers. Task failed successfully.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is it possible they evolved to taste delicious, but give explosive diarrhea sending the seeds everywhere?

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t understand how psilocybin evolved multiple times. I don’t see it as a defense because animals aren’t likely to conflate tripping balls with something they ate an hour previous.

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  • CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It looks like the evolutionary advantage is still debated. There’s a newer hyopethsis that, because psilocybin evolved during a period of heightened gastropod diversity, it could be defence against slugs and snails.

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    • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In confused as to how it’s not considered a spore distribution strategy because mammals like tripping balls and spores can survive digestion… 🤷

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• NeilBru@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “The only way to communicate with this species is by consuming it. Curious.”

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  • MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s also a very good method of communicating with God and aliens.

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• Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve come to find that if your chemicals do things we want them.

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