There is a plant that behaves so differently from a tree that most of what people assume about it is wrong, starting with what it is.
Bamboo is a grass.…
There is a way of thinking about disturbance that treats it as damage — something that happens to an ecosystem and that the ecosystem then recovers from.
That framing works…
Fruit Ripens Because of a Gas It Releases Itself, and One Ripe Piece Will Set Off Everything Near It
There is a category of everyday phenomenon that turns out to have a mechanism nobody would guess, and the way fruit behaves in a bowl is one.
The observable facts…
There is a constraint that shapes plant biology more than almost anything else, and it is easy to overlook because it is so obvious.
Plants cannot move. Not slightly limited…
There is a misunderstanding built into how these plants are usually described, and correcting it makes everything else about them clearer.
They are not predators in the sense of animals…
There is a category error built into the way most people look at a shallow sea.
Everything green underwater gets filed as seaweed, and seaweed is algae — a fundamentally…