There are a lot of weird flowers out there
Evolution is wonderfull
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My aunt had one of these but she watered it too much and it drowned. lmao
The lizard vine is a fake
The fruit is, but not the plant, scientific name: Tetrastigma voinieranum, common names: Chestnut Vine, Lizard Vine, Wild Grape
There are plants that cam see, so you are rightly afraid.
Does this fuckwit know what punctuation is?
How do you know it's not a bird trying to look like a plant? Y'know to evade predators and all...
Looks fake as hell. I'd be more afraid of falling for stuff like this. Cute as a Photoshop challenge though
I thought you were being too cynical because plenty of plants evolved this technique but then I realized because of AI I have absolutely no idea if they're real or not, unless I spend time that I don't have on researching it.
Seems like it's a touched up fake. The white duck head one is especially obvious. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/52975/does-the-yulan-magnolia-flower-bud-look-like-a-bird
Why do plants know how birds look
The potatoes told them. (Potatoes have eyes)
This is brilliant, thanks
However it doesn't explain how trees know how to fly (thinking of maple seeds with they're near-perfect wings)
Animals are something plants invented to help spread their seeds around.
Know what's wild? For millions of years nothing around ate trees, so when a tree grew and died and fell it was permanently there because there was no rot. Which is how we got petrified forests.
Isn't that more because of the lack of fungi that could break down wood?
From my readings, I don't think this is the case. Lignin degradation evolved rapidly with terrestrial plants. Coal and petrified wood is more due to geological events and swamps for example. Evolving ligninases is trivial for bacteria and fungi.
Life in general is most likely something the universe invented to speed up entropy.
There's a nice theory about how it looks like the goal is actually to produce photons more efficiently.
Life is a natural part of entropy for sure.
Still looks like a fake
More evidence birds aren't real
The evidence is building, I can no longer deny
That question below is honestly a good way to demonstrate how bad people can be at understanding what would be called materialism without it being explained to them first
Easy to assume the shape of that flower is due to decisions made by the plant itself instead of the more accurate way of understanding its shape being the result of external conditions and pressures acting upon the plant and its flower growth over a long time
What the fuck does that have to do with materialism?
Doesn't this imply that the flower is polinated by bird cocks. Think about it a bird fucks one flower or starts to before realizing, and then later he fucks annother flower thus spreading the pollen of the first flower.
No, it just implies that it was adaptive to look like a bird.
It could be for any number of reasons, including because aliens exist and years ago they were like "let's screw up all the plants in this area for generations" until the leader's kid saw one that kind of looked like little birds and threw themselves in front of it and said "wait, no, spare this one."
When a bird and a flower love each other very much...
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