Inspired by @ Raptor_Huss3 ’s post " The dumbest myths you heard about animals " I thought I would make a thread for plants and share my own stories too. “No, you can’t be ‘immune’ to poison ivy”- This is a long story, but as a small child I was telling a friend that poison ivy has no effect on me. S…

Also beans, peas and sweet corn are technically fruit.

Yup (at least the entire pods are). But it would just make no sense at all to call them fruits in day to day life. Also, technically some “fruits” aren’t actually fruits (apples, pears, strawberries…), but I guess a “fruit salad” sounds more appetising than a “salad of hypanthia and receptacles”. :…

German and English terminology can differ and some things that are often pointed out in English make no sense or do not translate into German and vice versa. Giftig is a good example: in German, both the rattlesnake that bites you and the mushroom that kills you when you eat it are giftig, but in En…

Oh no, please not that discussion! D: Like I said in my first comment, it’s sort of one of my pet peeves. The inner rage and fury (aka mild resentment) some here might feel when discussing dandelion taxonomy I have for that topic. Haha

I had a long talk with my fathers doctor lately. His doctor actually uses medicine made from plants regularly, but he pointed out quite clearly that there is a big difference between medicine made from plants and dietary supplements. Here, there are almost no quality controls or very low quality sta…

Bananas are so high in potassium, it is dangerous to eat more than five. That is why they are sold in bunches of five. From the BBC’s flagship gardening programme on Radio 4, Gardeners Question Time: Lichens won’t harm a healthy tree but they will strangle a sickly one. Don’t nail your shed to a …

[image] jhbratton: That is why they are sold in bunches of five. And yet I have often seen bunches of six or seven.

[image] jhbratton: Don’t nail your shed to a tree because as the tree grows, it will lift the shed into the air. So, if I nail my shed to a seedling, in 30 years I will have a tree house? :D

This might work if the ‘tree’ was a large species of bamboo.

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