#vascularplants — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vascularplants, aggregated by home.social.
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We celebrate Caturday and Mondog, why not TracheophyteTuesday?
Tracheophytes are vascular plants. Most plants are tracheophytes, including ferns, gymnosperms and flowering plants.
I'm fortunate to live with these lovely tracheophytes.
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Hundred-year-old riddle in #botany reveals key plant adaptation to dry land
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-hundred-year-old-riddle-botany-reveals-key.htmlPaper: Hydraulic failure as a primary driver of #xylem network evolution in early #VascularPlants https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add2910
The first vascular #plants were just centimeters tall and constrained to live where water was readily available. To grow taller and begin exploring the landscape, they first had to find alternatives to their ancestral vascular arrangement.