Extant Plant Appreciation Thread

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

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 isn’t 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 “trap”.

1. Chamovitz, Daniel (2012). What a Plant Knows. United States: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 117. ISBN 9780374533885.

By Noah Elhardt - Self-published photo by Noah Elhardt, CC BY-SA 2.5, File:Venus Flytrap showing trigger hairs.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

@AnthropocenianAge

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 “trap”.

I hope noone will come into this thread and start the argument on whenever plants are “secretly” smart or not.

I’ve also heard that the flytraps can only close their traps a set, limited amount of times.

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

They also can open them before releasing digestive juices in case something like debris get inside the traps.

@aah31415

I hope noone will come into this thread and start the argument on whenever plants are “secretly” smart or not.

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.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Yeah. Their networks might be rather complex… but that doesn’t mean they’re sapient or anything.

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

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?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I like “food plants”. Afterall, without them, we wouldn’t be here now.