
You think that plants can’t see
Because they haven’t any eyes.
You think that they can’t hear.
I bet you’d be surprised.
We limit our understanding of
The world by thinking only
From a human perspective.
That’s why we get so lonely.
When all the company you’d ever need’s
Inside you at all times.
It feels just like a sentence
But God committed no crime.
“In a 2021 study published in the journal Plant Signaling & Behavior, Felipe Yamashita and Jacob White claimed that B. trifoliolata may employ a primitive form of vision to identify and mimic their hosts. This hypothesis is based upon 1905 and 1907 claims by Gottlieb Haberlandt and Francis Darwin, respectively, that some plants use ‘ocelli‘ or lens-like cells to focus light onto other light sensitive cells. In this study, B. trifoliolata was observed mimicking the leaf shapes of plastic plants, and researchers refined Haberlandt and Darwin‘s ocelli hypothesis, claiming that B. trifoliolata may be using convex shaped lenses in epidermal tissue that can detect light and “see” the shapes of nearby leaves. They further proposed that, B. trifoliolata processes that information through an unknown means, possibly through neuron-like structures in order to initiate mimicry. The study also found that non-mimetic leaves have more free-end veinlets and identified the hormone auxin as a possible mediator in changes to leaf morphology.”
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