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Cake day: January 21st, 2024

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  • There’s tonnes of blackthorn and a lot of sheep in the UK and I’ve never heard it to be problematic. Sheep ate pretty dim, but bramble is definitely not thorny/spiney enough to get caught bar the odd occasion. I’m sure I heard about a shrub (African maybe) that sheep can get completely ensnared in and die, but can’t find it!



  • Because they live in environments lacking in the nutrients that can be gained from invertebrates (e.g. in highly acidic soil). This allows them to compete better against other plants. I guess non-flowering plants don’t need the same nutrients so can go without. Only a beginnner+ at ecological botany so someone here can surely explain better knowing lemmy!


  • Ah, but you are assuming that most people are engaging with the discussion to add something or to learn. The majority of the time people are just flapping their lips to sound knowledgeable and authoritative about it and thus feed their ego. It doesn’t matter if they actually are, only that they think they are and come across to other ignoramuses that they are.