Wacky ass sporophiles

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• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m pretty emotionally vulnerable rn if any botanists out there want to tell what the hell is cool about fern jizz

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Guess I’m an anime now

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  • stray@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not a botanist, but their tadpoles swim. Plants without this feature will relocate the sperm themselves.

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh sick! Okay thanks for the fern facts. 👈😎👈

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  • anzo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I studied biology and one thing I like about ferns is that they have these “dots” under their “leaves” that once mature drops a powder of spores that creates new ferns… Don’t ask me why I like it, I just do. I find it simple and to the point. You can simply leave a pot with earth under a fern and then you will find a baby developing there. Just like magic, and very elegant.

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Okay that’s pretty cool. Doesn’t follow what I thought was plant logic at all

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    idk if there are other cool parts, but the one i’m aware of is that their jizzulate is asexual, basically clones (i think). The ferns shed spores which grow into what looks like a leaf on the ground, then those “leaves” have their own more normal sex cells which do the usual thing, which then grow into actual ferns from the surface of the “leaf”.
    It’s fucking wild.

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Okay that is barely even plant behavior. Hella cool though

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• FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Get out of here with your angiospermnormativity

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• boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fern blossoms are an inside joke of my culture. During summer solstice celebrations, young couples would go away from the rest of the group to look for fern blossoms.

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• FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Holy shit this was way too relevant to my interests lmao

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  this diagram feels like the type of knowledge that is so powerful that it is forbidden

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  • DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      of course i know the kabbalah, but what does it have to do with the current context?

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• FernFrederick@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m confused:

  The main early Carboniferous plants were the Equisetales (horse-tails), Sphenophyllales (scrambling plants), Lycopodiales (club mosses), Lepidodendrales (scale trees), Filicales (ferns), Medullosales (informally included in the “seed ferns”, an assemblage of a number of early gymnosperm groups) and the Cordaitales.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous#Plants^___^

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  • mmcintyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The meme says those Carboniferous ferns are extinct and currently alive ferns are from the Cretaceous.

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• rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  GISS. Pronounced jizz.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am a soporiphile. 🥱😪😴

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