Plant Protection

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• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I love chilli’s for this. They’ve developed spiciness to discourage getting eaten. We made an entire fucking menu out of it.

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  • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    See also caffeine.

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    • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      and nicotine and cocaine

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  • LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And yet, it has proven to be an adaptation that has greatly increased their success as a species. In the end, it doesn’t matter to the plant whether it is eaten or not as long as it gets to reproduce - and we’ve spread it around the world.

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  • iamericandre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thought you meant the restaurant at first

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Plant?

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  • MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah I didn’t realize that they were not pants until after I made the post. Ooopsie.

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    • djmikeale@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      To be fair, I think it fits the format quite well - would the high guy know mushrooms aren’t plants? We don’t know!

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    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Haha so informed. Hahahaa@aaa@aaaaaaaaaaaa ❤️

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  • Flames5123@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We didn’t even formally classify the fungi kingdom until 1969. We still classified it under plantae kingdom.

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The mushroom is the reproductive organ of the fungus.

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  • beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ew, also I like it in my pasta, tacos, and pizza.

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    • FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Tacos??

      That’s mighty adventurous.

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I got some dry ones in college, not a ton but enough. Decided to put in some ramen I was making. I didn’t even get all the way through the bowl before I knew I should stop. Only closed eye visuals, but it was pretty dope.

      I was floating down rainbow road from Mario kart 64 and the cosmic owl from adventure time was jamming out with these double sided maracas. It was pretty chill.

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Caffeine is an insecticide plants invented to not get eaten by bugs.

  Now manthings farm those plants.

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• BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve spoken to the mushrooms about this several times, they get us all in the end anyway so they think it’s funny.

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• Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Look at hot peppers. Task failed successfully.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is it possible they evolved to taste delicious, but give explosive diarrhea sending the seeds everywhere?

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  • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think that was just task failed

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    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean, given that humans now cultivate them en masse they are succeeding given that the task is to reproduce.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t understand how psilocybin evolved multiple times. I don’t see it as a defense because animals aren’t likely to conflate tripping balls with something they ate an hour previous.

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  • CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It looks like the evolutionary advantage is still debated. There’s a newer hyopethsis that, because psilocybin evolved during a period of heightened gastropod diversity, it could be defence against slugs and snails.

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    • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In confused as to how it’s not considered a spore distribution strategy because mammals like tripping balls and spores can survive digestion… 🤷

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  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Hey Grug, this shroom makes me understand the will of the great mammoth in the sky, let’s plant a shit-ton of it, just in case we need mammoth-advice in the future”

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• NeilBru@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “The only way to communicate with this species is by consuming it. Curious.”

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  • MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s also a very good method of communicating with God and aliens.

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Isn’t it a line of defense against insects?
  “Animals” would be broad enough to be true,
  “Mammals” zoomed in on the wrong kingdom.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  some will cause delerium, in the same genus, family that cause hallicinations, they can destroy the liver, hence the destroying angels.

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• Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve come to find that if your chemicals do things we want them.

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• sailorzoop@lemmy.librebun.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  'tis the season

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