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A shrubbery!

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    shrubabbaby

    shrubry

    shurubaby

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    • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i love this comics so much

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So I should put them on sandwiches? 🤔

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    • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does this suggest the existence of dom-shrubs?

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      • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nnnnnnn….. yes?

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    • Okokimup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Absolutely. Basil with tomato, mozzarella, some spinach if you want to bulk it up and get more nutrients, and a balsamic glaze.

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    • Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If the bread is still connected on your sub, is it technically a hotdog?

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    aren’t herbs

    What on Earth is that bird’s definition of an “herb”? A pretty uncontroversial definition from Wikipedia:

    Herbs generally refers to the leafy green or flowering parts of a plant (either fresh or dried), while spices are usually dried and produced from other parts of the plant, including seeds, bark, roots and fruits.

    And what the goddamn hell is “true wood”? Rosemary is a woody shrub and, like basil, is in the family Lamiaceae with a bunch of other herbs.

    “Shrubs” and “herbs” are not mutually exclusive. wtaf is the logic here; there’s pedantry, and then there’s fucking nonsense pulled out of thin air.

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    • waigl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And what the goddamn hell is “true wood” supposed to distinguish?

      I suppose if it contains lignin, it’s really wood, otherwise it just kinda looks like wood at best. If it’s real wood, most animals, with a few exceptions here and there, cannot directly digest it.

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      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I suppose if it contains lignin, it’s really wood

        I appreciate you trying to fill in the gaps that the comic leaves with its abject, ignorant nonsense masquerading as pedantry, but wood is more complicated than just the presence if lignin.

        Otherwise, oops, wheat is wood.

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  • btsax@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The other side of this term is that the banana is the largest herb; the banana tree is the tallest plant that doesn’t produce wood

    Of course mixing up culinary and botany meanings deliberately is dumb and leads to people saying things like “a tomato is a fruit” and “a strawberry isn’t a berry” those people can go produce their own wood if you know what I mean

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    • Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A strawberry isn’t a berry. It’s just small and has it in the name. It doesn’t even look like a berry.

      Also a banana isn’t an herb. Just the banana tree is. The banana is a berry.

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      • btsax@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        ugh

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      • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How do strawberries not look like berries to you?

        1000138284

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  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That reminds me, I must go check the oregano. It could be ready to harvest.

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  • als@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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    • Shrubbery@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You rang?

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      • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You must go to the tallest tree in these woods and cut it down. WITH . . . a haddock!

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  • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be honest people eat basil and rosemary leaves not the wood part. So the same could be said about bay leaves, no one bites the tree itself

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    • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’ve never had cinnamon!?

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      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What is this cinnamon shtick you speak of?

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    • FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait… You guys dont bite trees?

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      • bridgeburner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Didn’t know we had beavers here on Lemmy

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  • fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Outstanding meme abuse.

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  • Gwyntale@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bananas are berries

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    • FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      WHAT?

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      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I fear a storm is coming

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Rosemary does grow like a shrub if you let it. A regular size one.

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  • Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Strawberries are not berries (but aggregate accessory fruits). Cucumber, watermelon and pumpkin belong to the same family of plants. Tomatoes are fruit. Well botanically, vegetables do not exist anyway. Vegetables are a social construct. Also, wheat is a kind of grass. Isn’t our world beautiful?

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How can vegetarians be real if our vegetables aren’t real?

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      • BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Now you’re asking the questions they don’t want you to ask

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      • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Vegetarians aren’t real because they still support mass murder of animals! (partly /s)

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    • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is beautiful, but you made it sound like Mexican food. It’s all the same you can just do it differently and call it something else.

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That wheat is a grass is even easier to understand than corn also is one. And don’t forget bamboo, which can even grow into huge “trees” forming large bamboo forests!

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I get the idea planetologists got high of their own supply. What the fuck is up with all that?

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The most sensical classification of species. Tracking shared traits and now shared DNA to group species by how recently they share an ancestor.

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  • waigl@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait, basil?

    Rosemary, I get (and also thyme, btw), but basil? At best, the dried out stalks of a basil can look a bit woody, but that’s true for a lot of plants.

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    • 0ops@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When Basil matures, especially after it flowers it gets pretty woody

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      • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yup, gardeners are encouraged to cut off the tops of basil so that it doesn’t flower (and then it doesn’t turn woody).

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    • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Basil I forgot about and dried:

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    True wood? Wood was reinvented multiple times.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      isn’t it all just the same genes, getting switched on and off repeatedly?

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

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  • megopie@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So… are they spices? Like cinnamon?

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is a play on the two meanings of herb. Of course they are still “herbs” in the culinary sense. But in a botanical sense you would classify plants into categories like herb(aceous plant), sub-shrub, shrub, tree, vine, liana, etc. This doesn’t affect culinary names though.

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      • megopie@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, but consider that if there is bark, cinnamon is bark.

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  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everyone in here talking about science and my stupid ass thought this was a reference to the song Scarborough fair

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  • Kanda@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Say ‘what’ one more time motherfucker

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  • amniote@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Basilicum makes wood, obviously.

    Herb

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought shrubs were defined from multiple stem growth

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But is maple syrup a herb, or an herb?

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  • Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t say this around the Knights Who Say “Ni!”

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    • Chakravanti@monero.town ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We are now the Knights Who Say Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang zoom boing mumble-mumble

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