i think it's fucked up that there are plants that decided they wanted to eat meat
a plant's job is literally to just exist but the venus flytrap chose violence
what if i gently laid an uncooked steak on the soil for it to absorb
my tree biology teacher fed her calcium-deficient tree a whole-ass bbq rib bone - she stuck it in the ground near the base of the tree (after eating the meat off of it), and when she came back to collect it to show the tree biology class it was GONE
the tree had grown a root up through the center of it & out through the sides
also there’s an old story about a man who was buried beneath a tree, and when they went to exhume the body it had been completely absorbed by the tree’s roots- you could see the shape of the body in the way the roots grew, splitting up for clearly defined arms and legs. trees will absolutely eat a steak if you bury it & they need the nutrients.
that’s horrifying! thank you
I mean yeah? Bone meal and blood meal are common fertilizers for plants.
And plants' roots actively forage, seeking out the areas of the most nutrients as they grow, so it makes sense
"What are corpses on the ground but uncooked steaks for some tree" is my new favorite quote
What is Dirt?
Dead Things, mostly.
Dead Things, Minerals, and Shit.
