- icerunner_origin ( @icerunner_origin@startrek.website ) English56•11 days ago
Do plants die of old age though? Now that question has been put in my head, I need to know.
Be back in a bit, going down a rabbit hole.
- icerunner_origin ( @icerunner_origin@startrek.website ) English43•11 days ago
Given the right conditions, some plants can live indefinitely. Others die shortly after seeding.
- Malgas ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) English23•11 days ago
There’s a bristlecone pine tree in the White Mountains of California that is nearly 5000 years old.
- Karyoplasma ( @Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ) English23•11 days ago
Depends how you look at it. If you keep raising off-shoots from cuttings, you are essentially producing extensions of the very same plant and you can do that indefinitely. Think about it like cloning: an individual plant will eventually die, but it’s clone will survive and can still propagate.
Plants are not biologically immortal like some lobsters for example.
Vine plants are especially weird.
- Kanda ( @Kanda@reddthat.com ) English11•11 days ago
So… Do they?
- frank ( @frank@sopuli.xyz ) English10•11 days ago
Subscribe to plant facts
- thisbenzingring ( @thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ) English6•11 days ago
wait until you get to the part about the Ginkgo tree
- icerunner_origin ( @icerunner_origin@startrek.website ) English2•10 days ago
It is the horseshoe crab of trees
- aramis87 ( @aramis87@fedia.io ) 14•11 days ago
If BBC Science Magazine was texting me at 1.29am to ask “Why do the British talk about the weather so much?”, BBC Science Magazine and I would be having words - especially if they texted me six hours later to ask about plants!
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) English12•11 days ago
because you shook your neurons…
there wouldnt be tides
they lose a bit of energy every time they bounce
some do some dont
because their weather is awful go to sleep right now timmy im losing my patience.
- Slovene ( @Slovene@feddit.nl ) English4•10 days ago
Yeah, he thought it was a different kind of BBC notifications. ಠ◡ಠ