Charlie StrossRoses are red
Violets are blue
Cyanosis follows severe haemorrhaging
And no amount of sugar will save you
Violets are blue
Cyanosis follows severe haemorrhaging
And no amount of sugar will save you
Listen, I fail to see what's romantic about thrusting a bundle of severed hermaphrodite genitalia at your love interest. They may be collected from sessile photoautotrophs as a traditional human invitation to copulation but it's somewhere on the same continuum as a gift of disemboweled rodents from your pet cat.
John Maxwell@cstross "Here. Have some dead plant genitals. I hope you like them." used to be my phrase for such occasions. Worked well as a screen for people who could tolerate my sense of humor.
JdeBPThe question is: Are they actually dead at that point? What constitutes death for a plant? It's not lack of brain activity.
Warning: Go too far down this road and you realize that the #potatoes that will happily begin growing shoots if you leave them in the sack for too long are alive and screaming when you drop them into boiling water.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190687724.003.0010
After all, part of the point of #cooking is to kill otherwise still-alive organisms before eating.
acbAt this point, I recommend a short story by #RoaldDahl titled "The Sound Machine". It's collected in More Tales Of The Unexpected, amongst other places.
The story was published in 1949. Botanical science finally caught up with fiction in 2023.