TIL quicksilver is another term for mercury

This is an evolutionary strategy for them to occupy niches that other plants can't, this giving them a competitive edge. Some other metal tolerant plants don't hyper accumulate, and have pathways to selectively uptake what they need without poisoning themselves.

Hyper accumulators take up everything and then just store it in the vacuoles of their cells to isolate the metals.

Importantly, when the plants die, the metals are re-released, so if you're phyroremediating you have to harvest them and then dispose of them in a landfill.

Finally, hyper accumulators can pose a risk to wildlife that might browse on them, whereas metal tolerant plants may not

Tobacco and cannabis are both bio-accumulators, so it's important to smoke properly grown bud.

in chernobyl truffle fungi were hyperaccumalators of radioactive metals, they found that out when they examined why the wild boar had higher than normal amount of the elements.

quicksilver

You mean mercury?

Ah, ein anderer Topfvollgold-Gucker