Plant Buries Its Own Babies Alive!
Peanuts are legumes with a reproductive trick few crops can match: they flower above ground, then deliberately bury the fertilized ovary so the fruit can develop underground.
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You’ve Been Eating Ovaries Your Whole Life!
Plants have been packaging mature reproductive structures as snacks for millions of years. Botanists have known. The rest of us were apparently not informed.
Flowers Exposed Using Hidden Ultraviolet Advertising!
Flowers that look ordinary to human eyes can display bold ultraviolet patterns to bees, creating hidden visual signals that influence where pollinators visit.