Neighbors | Poorly Drawn Lines
Neighbors | Poorly Drawn Lines
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Not sure if this is indended or not, but the somewhat controversial mother tree hypothesis stipulates exactly this -- trees borrowing carbohydrates (sugar) from neighbors via mycorrhizal networks.
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ya beat me to it
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Do they use cups though?
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I thought the small one was a parasite - wanting the sugar. It would work as a joke with specific taxa.
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You'd think a solar powered sugar factory would know about sugar.
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They understand the sugar; they don't know what a cup is.
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The mycelium network connecting them knows.
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Fun fact of the day: Xylitol is a type of sugar that is extracted from trees, typically from birch.
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