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Beethoven's homeboy

@hoberyn-martell / hoberyn-martell.tumblr.com

Phil | 31 | Canadian | PhD in linguistics | shitposting enthusiast | gay af
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Plants what now

I knew they could hear noises but apparently they MAKE noises too

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xkittyzo1

Cats knocking over houseplants just got a lot more vindictive

SHUT UPPPP

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weaselle

also some plants can see. as it turns out. Shouldn't be surprising because they are literally covered in light sensitive cells that direct them toward sunlight, but, yeah, some of them have versions of those cells that can see in some fashion or another.

we found this out fairly recently (last 3 or 4 years) because the plant boquila trifoliolata can grow its leaves different shapes to mimmic the plants around it and we thought maybe they did it by touch or something so we did an experiment with no touching and ruled that out, and then we thought maybe it was some kind of pheromone thing or something but in another experiment it copied the leaf shape of a plastic plant, so

anyway plants can see. some only enough to tell where the sunlight is strongest, others... more than that.

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elfwreck

Yeah Boquila trifoliolata is the mimic octopus of the plant world.

Examples of Boquila trifoliolata mimicking the leaves of other plants. Yellow arrows point to leaves of Boquila trifoliolata that are mimicking other species in A-G. Image H shows what Boquila trifoliolata leaves look like when they’re not mimicking other plants. Ernesto Gianoli/Trends in Plant Science

Also it's not just reacting to plant pheremones or something like that... it will mimic plastic plants.

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I literally love this.

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

No joke.

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meg-moira

This has the same energy as a writer desperately trying to make their insanely cool but devastatingly off the wall plot point work with the rest of the story

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bad

i looked up the source for this and its from an anime where a dude has to keep a constant boner for a month straight or he loses his house

is this the episode where he lost his house

I have not stopped thinking about this even once for the last 8 years

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