Posted on 11/29/2022 1:11:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
I have an Aloe Vera plant that grows with amazing speed to an amazing size, and puts out babies like crazy.
Every two years or so, ‘Audrey’ outgrows her current pot, gets composted and then one of her ‘babies’ goes into the old pot and the process begins again.
I’ve had her for close to 20 years, now. An amazing plant.
And, yes. She can see. She’s always watching me. :)
I’ve seen “mimic” weed plants grow right up my peppermint. Might be an evolutionary thing, they just didn’t get weeded out as often as obvious intruders.
Similar plants might get a free pollination ride, or protection from predators, etc.
“right up my peppermint” s/b “right up next to my peppermint”
And Black-Eyed Susans.
Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding SEEd, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose SEEd is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Coinseedence? I think not! 🍿🍿🍿
An Iris, maybe.. (?)
LOL
I read an article in Scientific American (50 years ago, before they forgot the definition of science), that plants turn toward the sun because the stems produce more chloroform on their sunny side, causing the stem to twist.
Just another one of those amazing things that evolve from chaos. ;)
I was in a family store, all alone, no business.
I hear rustling, like paper falling on other paper.
Turn around, the plant is shaking. No air conditioning running - it was inside a mall, away from mall entrances.
However, the glass of the store faced East, and the mall glass was across the walkway about another 10 feet out.
One day, for fun, I took a magic marker and made very small mark across the center stem and branches so I could mark the growth and the rotation.
At night I’d turn the plant away from the Sun - but it would turn towards the lights on at night in the store.
After the Sun was up the next day, they’d rotate towards the Sun.
It was pretty cool to observe that first time.
Remember fifty-fifty five years ago when it was claimed plants had feelings?
Well, I’ll have to remember that the next time I put the old Husqvarna 395XP blade up to an oak or maple ... it might swipe a branch down at me.
Potatoes have eyes. So there’s that.
I seed what you did there....................
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