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Paper on the experiment, where they test if the plant will mimic the leaves of an artificial plastic plant: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8903786
by LoveMortuus 3y ago
Paper on the experiment, where they test if the plant will mimic the leaves of an artificial plastic plant: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8903786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8903786/
Quite a read, I hope others replicate the study, because this is fascinating. If we're able to really point in the direction that the plant uses vision to mimic other plants leaves (even artificial plant), I wonder how that vision works!
- dncornholio 3y agoThere should have been multiple types mimic-leaves because we cannot rule out this is the plants normal growth. Also should have let the plant grow without any mimic leaves and with an actually growing plant.
- david-gpu 3y ago> There should have been multiple types mimic-leaves because we cannot rule out this is the plants normal growth. From the Wikipedia article [0] linked by the GP: > Ernesto Gianoli said "Boquila's leaves are extraordinarily diverse. The biggest ones can be 10 times bigger than the smallest, and they can vary from very light to very dark. In around three-quarters of cases, they are similar to the closest leaf from another tree, matching it in size, area, length of stalk, angle, and color. Boquila's leaves can even grow a spiny tip when, and only when, it climbs onto a shrub with spine-tipped leaves."[5] > When there are no nearby host leaves to influence them, the normal leaves of B. trifoliolata are relatively short and light green with rounded edges.[6] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boquila https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boquila