Friday, August 18, 2023

Plants


Wohlleben is... not uncontroversial

"Arboreality is often much uglier than Wohlleben lets on. Black walnuts poison other plants with a natural herbicide called juglone; some eucalyptus trees continually shed their oily bark, fuelling fires that immolate their competitors; various species of fig tree plant themselves high in the branches of other trees, then slowly creep downward, either strangling the host tree or splitting it apart."

Maybe not seeing but whatever they're doing is pretty cool (abt the leaf-mimicking study)

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