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Watch Ferns Get Freaky - Deep Look

Watch Ferns Get Freaky - Deep Look

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Rating: 4.0; Vote: 1
Look at the underside of a fern leaf. Those rows of orange clusters aren’t tiny insects; they’re spores waiting to be catapulted away. Once a spore lands, it grows into a tiny plant, from which fern sperm swim away, searching for an egg to fertilize. Think of that next time you’re hiking in the forest. My local florist uses fern leaves to garnish his arrangements. Anytime I bring home a table bouquet I'm cleaning zillions of spores off my kitchen table, and I find gametophytes in plant pots all over my house!
When I first noticed the dots under the fern leaves I thought they were bug eggs or something, but they seemed too regularly-spaced, so I did some googling and finally put the pieces together about the mysterious little green growths in my plant pots (which I'd previously clocked as mold.

Date: 2024-04-16

Comments and reviews: 10


This reminds me of a test station I found during an exam over 40 years ago. Inside a petri dish was a tiny leaf, with no explanation, just a question, what is this. Without the context that it was part of the fern life cycle, all I saw was a tiny leaf. Wrong. Those kind of what am I thinking of questions always seemed to be unfair.
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Saw the thumbnail, and I thought they were some kinds of insect until I realized the fern was a plant
Funny thing is, we eat some type of ferns here in Korea and they taste kinda like meat, despite being a vegetable. Maybe this hybrid biology explains it.

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There's an insect that I want you to cover, it's called orong-orong or Mole cricket. it's another nature Frankenstein. They can produce a very very unique sound, it's like sounds frogs with a hint of crickets
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They basically evolved these adaptations when plants were still figuring out how to plant. The sheer variety of life on this planet as well as what may be already lost to time never ceases to amaze.
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Plant reproduction is really simple: diploid sporophytes produce haploid spores which develop into gametophytes and produce gametes that fuse into diploid zygotes to grow into sporophytes
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I might be wrong and/or this might be bad advice but,
Can you maybe blurr such videos in the beginning and/or put a warning in the beginning please Thank you

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I walk through the woods of the Pacific Northwest daily. And now I'm going to keep a lookout for Ferns mating! Thank you for opening my eyes & mind, Deep Look!
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As a kid I loved collecting ferns for no reason in particular. I always thought the sori were solid little balls instead of these hairballs of catapults.
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I always used to wonder what those spots were. Deep look has such informative and quality videos.
No wonder they've won so many awards, well earned

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I love how nature uses some of the most low energy- solid ouput methods available. Only as much juice as whats needed for the task at hand.
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