Average plant behavior

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• TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Plants will either grow in some radioactive chernobyl concrete, or die if there’s 2mm more of rainfall than usual, no in between

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    uphill. both ways, too.

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s because of domestication and growing plants outside of their natural habitat that they get sensitive. Also, apparently some sensitivity is by design:

    Modern roses emerged in 1867 with the development of the first hybrid tea, according to the American Rose Society. These varieties tend to have a reputation for being fussy, requiring constant attention.

    “The conception is that they’re not tough, that they require spraying, that you have to have the perfect culture. And a lot of that has been breeding; to breed these perfect flowers, but they bred out characteristics that made the rose easy to grow in our backyards,”

    (From the OP’s article)

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• saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bunch of the plants in Australia rely on bushfires to survive and reproduce.

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  • Redacted@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fun history fact, australia gave a bunch of those trees to the us as a gift and no one thought to mention that they “explode” lol

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    • oneser@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Many countries got them, I’ve seen them in Spain too. Eucalyptus is an absolute S grade salinity fighter pew pew

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m really disappointed in the fact that there’s never been a carnivorous plant large enough to eat humans right now.

    I was going to make a joke about it being Australian and even the plants trying to kill you.

    Ah well. There’s always jokes about the Quoka Mafia plotting world domination.

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    • Melochar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Google the Gympie-gympie tree. It won’t eat you, but it can kill you, and it will hurt the whole time you are dying!

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Where am I from? no where in particular.” “you just blew in on the wind, huh?” “Exactly. You get it.”

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• recklessengagement@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Botany can be so cool

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• thirtyfold8625@thebrainbin.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/27/science/peggy-martin-rose-hurricane-katrina

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• Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Was the article talking about an actual rose, or were they just using a flowery description for something else?

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