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a plant's whole-life gamble that something will eat its children and walk away.
means The process by which a plant or fungus produces fruit or its reproductive bodies, ripening seeds in a package built to be carried off and dispersed.
from From "fruit," which came into English in the 12th century via Old French "fruit" from Latin "fructus" — meaning enjoyment, produce, or profit, literally "that which is enjoyed." It traces back to the Latin verb "frui," to enjoy or have use of, the same root behind "fruition" and "frugal." So a plant that is fruiting is, etymologically, busy making something to be enjoyed — though, as the essence notes, the enjoyment was never meant to be the plant's own. The "-ing" is the ordinary English suffix turning the act into an ongoing one.
- survival cost
- Plants pour years of energy into one fertile burst
- chemical bribe
- Sweetness evolved purely to recruit animal couriers
- fungal twist
- Mushrooms are fruiting bodies, not the actual organism
- timing trick
- Bamboo can wait decades, then fruit and die
apple orchard pollination — washington state produces 65% of us apples through managed fruiting cycles
coffee plant flowering — ethiopian highlands, arabica plants fruit 3-4 years after planting
cocoa pod development — ivory coast, pods take 5-6 months from flower to mature fruit