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[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I am actually a soporiphile. ๐Ÿฅฑ๐Ÿ˜ช๐Ÿ˜ด

[โ€“] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 27 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm pretty emotionally vulnerable rn if any botanists out there want to tell what the hell is cool about fern jizz

[โ€“] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

idk if there are other cool parts, but the one i'm aware of is that their jizzulate is asexual, basically clones (i think). The ferns shed spores which grow into what looks like a leaf on the ground, then those "leaves" have their own more normal sex cells which do the usual thing, which then grow into actual ferns from the surface of the "leaf".
It's fucking wild.

[โ€“] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 1 points 22 hours ago

Okay that is barely even plant behavior. Hella cool though

[โ€“] fossilesque@mander.xyz 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Guess I'm an anime now โœŠ๐Ÿ˜” pray for me

[โ€“] Hupf@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I just spent 20 minutes trying to put anime eyes PNG on Kevin James but the internet is dead and you can no longer do that for free. You're just going to have to imagine it based on the context

Wait here we go, this is the best I got. Fuck this gay earth

[โ€“] stray@pawb.social 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not a botanist, but their tadpoles swim. Plants without this feature will relocate the sperm themselves.

e: As a result of learning this, I also learned that molluscs, arthropods, and vertebrates all evolved brains independently, and it's actually normal for molluscs to have distributed brains rather than it being a neat quirk of a few examples. Arthropod brains are also more or less distributed depending on their specific needs.

Oh sick! Okay thanks for the fern facts. ๐Ÿ‘ˆ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ‘ˆ

[โ€“] anzo@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I studied biology and one thing I like about ferns is that they have these "dots" under their "leaves" that once mature drops a powder of spores that creates new ferns... Don't ask me why I like it, I just do. I find it simple and to the point. You can simply leave a pot with earth under a fern and then you will find a baby developing there. Just like magic, and very elegant.

Okay that's pretty cool. Doesn't follow what I thought was plant logic at all

[โ€“] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 14 points 2 weeks ago

Get out of here with your angiospermnormativity

[โ€“] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago

Fern blossoms are an inside joke of my culture. During summer solstice celebrations, young couples would go away from the rest of the group to look for fern blossoms.

Holy shit this was way too relevant to my interests lmao

[โ€“] rbos@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

GISS. Pronounced jizz.

[โ€“] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

this diagram feels like the type of knowledge that is so powerful that it is forbidden

[โ€“] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

of course i know the kabbalah, but what does it have to do with the current context? (reads my previous comment) ooh

[โ€“] FernFrederick@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm confused:

The main early Carboniferous plants were the Equisetales (horse-tails), Sphenophyllales (scrambling plants), Lycopodiales (club mosses), Lepidodendrales (scale trees), Filicales (ferns), Medullosales (informally included in the "seed ferns", an assemblage of a number of early gymnosperm groups) and the Cordaitales.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous#Plants

[โ€“] mmcintyre@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The meme says those Carboniferous ferns are extinct and currently alive ferns are from the Cretaceous.

Edit: not all are extinct, just almost all.. again, according to the meme, IANAB