I appreciate whoever took the time to find enough berries and pre-berries, and then arranged them so nicely
Same Shafeeq, same.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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otter@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
turbowafflz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
my question is how did they preserve the earlier stages long enough to still look good? i feel like i’ve never seen a blackberry bush with good looking flowers and fruit at the same time
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It might be shopped. Take a picture at each stage, then arrange them all on a background.
otter@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Oh that’s a good point
Maybe it’s a farm or greenhouse with plants in different stages of growth?
Drusas@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
New flowers and berries can still be growing while some are fully grown, especially if part of the plane is in shade but not all of it.
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
What you need is a whole bramble! Ive never seen a blackberry bush as such, but an entire wall of plants? Yes. They’ll continue to produce steadily for weeks/months.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Could have taken the pictures over time and combined them with GIMP or Photoshop.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
You probably can have most of these on the same bush. Our blackberry bushes constantly had fresh ripe ones for months. They dont all grow in sync.
elbucho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I read an article several years ago that was arguing that blackberry plants should be classed as carnivores. The idea sounds absolutely absurd, but the more you squint at it, the more sense it makes. Blackberry bushes grow incredibly dense thickets of brambles, and those brambles snag and don’t let go easily. Shepherds in areas with blackberry bushes often have to rescue sheep that eat the blackberries and get stuck in the brambles. If they don’t get rescued, they’ll eventually die and decompose, thus adding a bunch of nitrogen and other useful chemicals to the soil which cause the plant to become larger and healthier.
So while they don’t actively kill creatures like the venus fly trap or pitcher plants, they do grow in a way that can trap and kill animals, and they benefit hugely from the nutrients those animals provide.
discocactus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fish don’t exist.
elbucho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, they do exist. It’s just that everything is fish.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pretty cool concept, thanks for sharing.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
my name is Tim
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
Thanks for sharing bro that’s super interesting.
Drusas@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
I am the opposite. Things just like this make me happy for understanding them. I want to know how everything works. It's so gratifying and interesting.
BoJackHorseman@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
But you never will know most things in the world.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Then you’ll never have to be bored, there’s always something more to learn
Luccus@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
That’s when the 80:20 rule cones to rescue.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
That’s what makes it so beautiful to learn what I can. I do sometimes feel overwhelmed by the enormity of it all, but what grounds me is taking the time to feel joy at each wonderful little thing I do have the opportunity to learn, as well as the opportunity to share my learning with others.
Throughout my life, I have accumulated a heckton of random knowledge, all tied together by my subjective perspective. There are things that I know that no-one else can know — insights that come from a particular arrangement of facts and experiences. It gives me a sense of clarity because it reminds me that one of my duties is simply to just “hold the camera”, so to speak — to be the anchor for my particular, situated perspective
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Every day I realize how education has progressively failed us over the years since I left school.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Repeated budget cuts and restrictions tend to do that, yeah. Hell even when I was in school I saw them cutting education, saw half of this coming and got called crazy for it.
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
that picture is funky because it gives the impression there’s like 20 stages…there’s only 5 stages for the plant, with 2 of them being directly related to the berry. (yes I’m aware that the plant growth is related to berry growth…)
flowering, and fruiting. the rest is plant growth.
tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Academic mindset. I am sure there is a good rationale behind the 5 stages. But please remember nature is not discrete, the qualia overlap. We could recognize any number of stages.
thisfro@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Well, what did you expect?
Vespair@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Exactly. Like yes, this is cool, no doubt, but if a person truly had to stop and think about how this plant grew beyond just a quick knee-jerk reaction, surely this would have to be the logical conclusion… right?
ChexMax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think it’s intuitive that fruit comes from flowers. I think that’s something you have to observe or learn, otherwise you’d think fruit and flowers are separate things
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Berry hen to just lay them every day.
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
This is what people mean when they say “touch grass”
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Spending a lot of time outdoors as a kid then seeing this pic is kinda…yeah that’s how it works. Plus back in the day Discovery and other educational channels were actually educational, so you could learn about stuff you might not get to personally see.
People stay indoors and the Discovery Channel makes crap like Ice Road Truckers.
Yeah.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a blackberry not grass
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Around here the blackberries touch you.
LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Including shitposts
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
dammit i know it won’t be ripe for another month and a half and you’re gonna make me go check the berry bush
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
2 sperm per sweet. Simple as.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Uh, why? If it’s about the pink one loking like a raspberry; no, it’s not.
ductTapedWindow@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Oil go splooosh into bucket. No more oil splooshing? Screwy thing goes back on. Yell all set bay 2!
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The shape of the final fruit leaves me unconvinced that its not a black raspberry.
Without leaves or an angle peering into the top from where the stem was removed, its basically impossible to confirm my suspicioms. But something in my gut says um, actually.
Noobnarski@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They are very closely related anyway. I have a few plants in my garden that are hybrids of raspberries and blackberries.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
TIL weed is just blackberries.
Magnum@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
What
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
are there people who dont know that flowers turn into seeds (which in the case of fruit, the fruit itself contains the seeds)
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Yes.
There are a shocking number of people out there who are so far removed from touching grass that they literally have no idea about this kind of stuff. People who think a factory made the fruit they see on grocery store shelves.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re telling me berry hens aren’t a thing?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Some people are underprivileged and grow up in inner city neighborhoods where they have no access to reliable transportation to wilderness areas or even urban greenspace. It’s not always a “touch grass” situation.
Me, I grew up eating dirt and berries that I was pretty sure weren’t poisonous. I didn’t believe in washing my hands too much because I thought it would weaken my immune system.
The thing is, being familiar with nature didn’t help me navigate social situations. Someone who grew up in a city and has never seen a real forest is probably wayyy better adjusted and socially-integrated than I’ll ever be…
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Touching grass makes a botanist?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Look man, I don’t know what to tell you. I tried growing plants, and feeding them Brawndo. It’s not fault stupid plants don’t want to stupid grow! I fed them electrolites and everything. Plants growing on their own is all a conspiracy. Factories grow plants. Everyone knows that!
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
My grown ass colleague, 26 years old, thought store bought beef is made from industrial process from chemicals and only local butcher shops cut animals. I only learned that after working 4 years with him when we got to really talking about why I’m vegan. He thought since supermarket meat is from chemicals, my point of being vegan was moot.
So I won’t be surprised there are guys out there that don’t know how fruit is made.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I know how fruit/most plants work but I’ve never seen the stages of this particular berry laid out this way. Thought it was cool.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You forgot the step where it overtakes your yard and life.