Get out of here with your angiospermnormativity
Wacky ass sporophiles
Submitted 5 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 4 days ago
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 days 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.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 5 days ago
Holy shit this was way too relevant to my interests lmao
FernFrederick@feddit.org 5 days 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.
mmcintyre@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The meme says those Carboniferous ferns are extinct and currently alive ferns are from the Cretaceous.
rbos@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
GISS. Pronounced jizz.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
of course i know the kabbalah, but what does it have to do with the current context?
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
I’m pretty emotionally vulnerable rn if any botanists out there want to tell what the hell is cool about fern jizz
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 days ago
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sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Guess I’m an anime now
stray@pawb.social 5 days ago
Not a botanist, but their tadpoles swim. Plants without this feature will relocate the sperm themselves.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Oh sick! Okay thanks for the fern facts. 👈😎👈
anzo@programming.dev 3 days 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.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Okay that’s pretty cool. Doesn’t follow what I thought was plant logic at all