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[–] 24 points 11 months ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago

    Get out of here with your angiospermnormativity

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Holy shit this was way too relevant to my interests lmao

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    GISS. Pronounced jizz.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    I am actually a soporiphile. 🥱😪😴

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