I am the opposite. Things just like this make me happy for understanding them. I want to know how everything works. It’s so gratifying and interesting.
But you never will know most things in the world.
2 sperm per sweet. Simple as.
Every day I realize how education has progressively failed us in the United States over the years since I left school.
Uh, why? If it’s about the pink one loking like a raspberry; no, it’s not.
Oil go splooosh into bucket. No more oil splooshing? Screwy thing goes back on. Yell all set bay 2!
I read an article several years ago that was arguing that blackberry plants should be classed as carnivores. The idea sounds absolutely absurd, but the more you squint at it, the more sense it makes. Blackberry bushes grow incredibly dense thickets of brambles, and those brambles snag and don’t let go easily. Shepherds in areas with blackberry bushes often have to rescue sheep that eat the blackberries and get stuck in the brambles. If they don’t get rescued, they’ll eventually die and decompose, thus adding a bunch of nitrogen and other useful chemicals to the soil which cause the plant to become larger and healthier.
So while they don’t actively kill creatures like the venus fly trap or pitcher plants, they do grow in a way that can trap and kill animals, and they benefit hugely from the nutrients those animals provide.
Who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?
Thanks for sharing bro that’s super interesting.
Fish don’t exist.
No, they do exist. It’s just that everything is fish.
In a way, we are all fish.
Hiccups.
Seriously. Google it.
Pretty cool concept, thanks for sharing.
are there people who dont know that flowers turn into seeds (which in the case of fruit, the fruit itself contains the seeds)
Yes.
There are a shocking number of people out there who are so far removed from touching grass that they literally have no idea about this kind of stuff. People who think a factory made the fruit they see on grocery store shelves.
Some people are underprivileged and grow up in inner city neighborhoods where they have no access to reliable transportation to wilderness areas or even urban greenspace. It’s not always a “touch grass” situation.
Me, I grew up eating dirt and berries that I was pretty sure weren’t poisonous. I didn’t believe in washing my hands too much because I thought it would weaken my immune system.
The thing is, being familiar with nature didn’t help me navigate social situations. Someone who grew up in a city and has never seen a real forest is probably wayyy better adjusted and socially-integrated than I’ll ever be…
You’re telling me berry hens aren’t a thing? Next you’re gonna tell me some bullshit like chocolate milk doesn’t come from brown cows.
like chocolate milk doesn’t come from brown cows.
Wait…wut…???
You should have said “how now?”
Sup fam?
I’ll have you know that my friend at the ACME chocolate milk factory, Willie, swore to me that only brown cows can be used for production. He swore this over a stack of Spider-Man comics, so this is convincing and compelling evidence. Please retract your assertion good sir!!!
Touching grass makes a botanist?
Being around plants will help you understand plants better, yes. It won’t make you a botanist … but it doesn’t take a botanist to tell that buds become flowers and then become berries.
Look man, I don’t know what to tell you. I tried growing plants, and feeding them Brawndo. It’s not fault stupid plants don’t want to stupid grow! I fed them electrolites and everything. Plants growing on their own is all a conspiracy. Factories grow plants. Everyone knows that!
I know how fruit/most plants work but I’ve never seen the stages of this particular berry laid out this way. Thought it was cool looking…
You forgot the step where it overtakes your yard and life.
Them? Are there untame breeds? Or is ours just self-domesticated?
Himalayan Blackberry. An invasive for sure. Love the berry, but hate the plant as they spread very aggressively.
TIL, and it’s 5 AM.
Well, good morning and have an excellent day!
Night, you meant.
I appreciate whoever took the time to find enough berries and pre-berries, and then arranged them so nicely
my question is how did they preserve the earlier stages long enough to still look good? i feel like i’ve never seen a blackberry bush with good looking flowers and fruit at the same time
Could have taken the pictures over time and combined them with GIMP or Photoshop.
New flowers and berries can still be growing while some are fully grown, especially if part of the plant is in shade but not all of it.
It might be shopped. Take a picture at each stage, then arrange them all on a background.
Nah. You can easily find all stages on one bramble.
lol now someone do this version
Oh that’s a good point
Maybe it’s a farm or greenhouse with plants in different stages of growth?
This is what people mean when they say “touch grass”
Spending a lot of time outdoors as a kid then seeing this pic is kinda…yeah that’s how it works. Plus back in the day Discovery and other educational channels were actually educational, so you could learn about stuff you might not get to personally see.
People stay indoors and the Discovery Channel makes crap like Ice Road Truckers.
Yeah.
It’s a blackberry not a grass
Around here the blackberries touch you.
Scout Master Tim?
that picture is funky because it gives the impression there’s like 20 stages…there’s only 5 stages for the plant, with 2 of them being directly related to the berry. (yes I’m aware that the plant growth is related to berry growth…)
flowering, and fruiting. the rest is plant growth.
Academic mindset. I am sure there is a good rationale behind the 5 stages. But please remember nature is not discrete, the qualia overlap. We could recognize any number of stages.
Well, what did you expect?
Exactly. Like yes, this is cool, no doubt, but if a person truly had to stop and think about how this plant grew beyond just a quick knee-jerk reaction, surely this would have to be the logical conclusion… right?
Berry hen to just lay them every day.
