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What would a plant need to reach 2000 feet tall?

I’m making an alien biosphere and I’m wanting to make trees that reach over 2000 feet tall, the moon has weaker gravity to earth but has an atmosphere that’s twice as thick.

Also these plants have a honeycomb structure incorporating ciliates and stuff.

But realistically what would a plant that tall need to survive being that tall?

It’s not really a plant it’s more similar to a lichen? It’s a mix of algae, bacteria and fungi that decided to leave together.

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u/avian_bi — 13 hours ago
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big boy ginkgo biloba (and a london plane tree friend)

ginkgo biloba and platanus x acerifolia

u/reddit33450 — 10 hours ago
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Update on fertilized ficus pumila fruit found in california.

I think it could be parthenocarpic. I will collect cuttings (plant located at a public location) and will try to make jelly from the fruits

u/Jiewen_wang09 — 1 day ago
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I am interested in botany, with no use however

This label is as close as it gets. As you can seen in title I am really interested in botany of all kinds and want to start learning but I am already a firefighter and wont really do it as a job. I dont even have a garden. Are there some ways I can use these knowledge if I ever get little good at it ? And if I wanted to do something with it, what could I do? Im thinking about joing a college (an online one) to learn some stuff and get a Associate Degree(?) to use my knowledge ?

Sorry the post is kinda all over the place Im turkish and education system and things like that are different so I tried to explain myself as good as I can

Edit: I want to open some kind of flowershop to sell and grow plants and help people’s garden/ plants and farm when they need it.

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u/Guney_xetuka — 1 day ago
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More photos of the alien Drosera floridana (B.Rice) Juve & A.Fleischm., including instances of rampant seedling recruitment.

Unlike all other members of the D. filiformis complex, seeds of D. floridana do not require a preceding period of cold, wet stratification in order to germinate in significant numbers, and freshly sprouted seedlings can be observed in-situ throughout the year (corresponding with overall reduced seasonal influence on plant phenology). Similar to those of its allopatric northern congener D. filiformis, seeds of D. floridana have a tendency to germinate en-masse from locations where spent and newly prostrate inflorescences contact the sandy substrate and deposit many seeds in close proximity to one another. Few seedling plants present within these dense colonies will outcompete their siblings and reach maturity. Read more about the newly described D. floridana below:

https://cpn.carnivorousplants.org/Article.php/CPNv55n4p132-151

u/noah_juve — 2 days ago
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Just wondering about what triggers a plant, such as the Morning Glory, to grow in the way they do.

So we moved this Morning Glory a few days ago. It is now temporarily in front of our garage. It seems overnight the plant shot out tendrils seeking out the wall of the garage. There are no other branches moving in any other direction other than the garage wall.

What triggers a plant to know which direction to advance? How does the plant sense the wall?

I just found this interesting and puzzling at the same time.

TIA.

u/No-Management-5151 — 2 days ago
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Some late summer finds. Deception Pass State Park, Washington state USA

1-2: Salicornia pacifica (pacific glasswort), 3: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (bearberry), 4: Sedum spathulifolium (broad-leaved stonecrop), 5-7: Grindelia integrifolia (puget sound gumweed), 8-9: Platanthera elongata (denseflower rein orchid).

u/Redtail987 — 3 days ago
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Six Petal Nightshade

Thought this was cool.

Found what I believe is Bittersweet Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) on my boyfriend's porch. Took me a while to ID it because the flower I plucked (one of the last two on the whole plant) had 6 petals and no(?) stamen. Then was extra confused when I saw the other flower have 5 petals and 5 stamen.

Anyone now how rare this is in nightshade or specifically bittersweet nightshade?

Is the 6-petal flower sterile or just damaged/aged?

u/AwesomePizza05 — 3 days ago
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ginkgo seeds are so pretty in the sun

excited for these beauties to ripen too. only a couple months until fall!

u/reddit33450 — 4 days ago
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My favorite thing is watching plants explore

The way a pumpkin vine searches for the next support or how a grape vine follows the path of its ancestors. I find peace in the beauty of the structure and the unwavering exploration.

u/patientpartner09 — 5 days ago
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triplet flower on garden volunteer

i found this beautiful triplet flower in the garden this morning! the entire row has been giving only male flowers for over a month so i'm not sure if we'll ever find out who they are, but this was a lovely surprise. they start from the same stem+base, but are each fully formed flowers from there!

if anyone somehow knows the plant from these photos feel free to share but i mostly wanted to share the triplets! i planted cucamelon here, these are definitely not that, but i also haven't seen any cucamelon here so i'm guessing they mislabeled/packaged the seeds incorrectly 🥲 regardless, the plants have put on quite the show for us ❤️

(new to this sub+might've picked the wrong flair, sorry! just thought y'all might appreciate this)

u/farmbian — 6 days ago
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Abnormal growth pattern on Faucaria Tuberculosa?

Hello all,

Firstly I apologize for all the photos I'd just really love some feedback and opinions from you knowledgeable people.

This is my Faucaria Tuberculosa. I bought it in May (noticed right away she had a unique morphology) and this is how she's progressed.

Her leaf pairs are not coming out perfectly rotated from another and she has pairs shoving in from quite literally every crevice.

I've posted her several times on r/fasciation just to get an idea of what's going on with her to no avail. She's not crested or fasciated but her growth pattern is odd and I'd love to know if there's a name for this phenomenon or if this is just a quirky thing this plant does.

I added photos from nearly every angle and some admittedly terrible photos of leaf pairs emerging from lower leaf bases. I highly doubt you'll need more photos but if you do, I have them 🤭

Thank you for reading and I would love truly any thoughts, opinions or feedback about my little monster.

She's become a sort of rorschach test for toothy things, so what creature does she remind you of? 🦈

u/SmoothD3vil — 7 days ago
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Ano to? May patterns sa kalamansi kung saan madalas hinihiwa ang kalamansi pero itong nasa picture hindi pa ito bukas

u/crazycatlady_73 — 9 days ago
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Looking for a book on plant symbolism and folklore for tattoo reference.

I'm a tattoo artist, and starting out I never expected to enjoy drawing flowers and mushrooms so much. People come to me for them all the time, and while the most common requests are birth month flowers sometimes people ask for recommendations based on their specific experiences and I've got nothing.

I'm looking for a book with a large variety of plants, with lots of photographs or illustrations for reference, but also something that leans more into the symbolism and cultural significance of the plants rather than focusing more on biology and the hard sciences.

I don't care about price, I would rather have one cohesive chonker of a book vs needing several shorter books on the same topic.

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u/Lufthansa138 — 6 days ago