Even though sentient Plants are not planned to be in the game, this does not mean that Plants in real life are not interesting. Thus, everyone can come here and enjoy the fascinating world of Plants.
To start this off, there isnβt anything more American than eating a good Steak. Apparently, the Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea muscipula) agrees with eating meat, too, being only found in North and South Carolina. In addition to being a carnivorous plant, research has found that they have memory, learning how many hairs need to be triggered and how long they should wait between their trigger hairs being triggered before closing their βtrapβ.
Chamovitz, Daniel (2012). What a Plant Knows. United States: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 117. ISBN9780374533885.
They also can open them before releasing digestive juices in case something like debris get inside the traps.
The problem is we cannot directly communicate them, even though via experimental evidence, we know plants send aerosolized signals that affect other plants when their own leaves get mulched.
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aah31415
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Yeah. Their networks might be rather complexβ¦ but that doesnβt mean theyβre sapient or anything.
Unless the way their intelligence works is completely different from what we think of as intelligence, and if that is the case, then it means we may never trully know truly how intelligent they are.
Back to the topic at hand, what is one your favorite plants?
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aah31415
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I like βfood plantsβ. Afterall, without them, we wouldnβt be here now.
