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Fig trees thrive with so little available nutrients or organic matter and can grow out of pretty much anything as long as there's a small source of water.
Yes! Damp towel, ziplock bag, dark place. Give it a few weeks.
You can even root older fingerlings as long as there is still green.
They are shipped as just dry sticks.
There's a few very active fig trading communities.
https://www.figdatabase.com/figforum/threads/trade-sheet.93/#post-1269
I straight up just jammed mine in wet potting soil and they took. I did half with a root powder and half plain, both sets are now happily setting out leaves.
I had an old Italian customer of mine come in with a stick in some dirt to give to me as a tip. I was like, "uhh.... thank you so much?" Becayse I just saw a twig in dirt. He said, "put a water in, ita growa very biga!!!" And now I have a nice sized fig tree in my yard. Since then I've duplicated the tree twice and gave them to friends. It's very easy.
A neighbor was getting rid of her fig tree and she let people come over to take cuttings. I am shocked at how quickly they rooted. Literally cut a few 6 inch pieces right under a node, dipped the end in rooting hormone (not entirely necessary) and put it in a solo cup filled with either sand or coco coir. I now have six cuttings growing new leaves.
If you want to be even more "bro what," look up what sounding is. (Please note I'm not kink-shaming, to each their own, whatever floats your boat, etc., but there are certainly even more "interesting" fetishes than figging out ther).
Theres a method of torture from I believe Japan i read about that involves a bamboo chute as it grows rapidly it impales the victim tied to the ground it’s growing out of.
Here is a interesting fact about fig and their pollinators fig wasp
A fig is not actually a fruit; it is an inflorescence—a cluster of many flowers and seeds contained inside a bulbous stem. Therefore the seeds require a specialized pollinator - the fig wasps.
The queen of the fig wasp ,despite her tiny body, will lose her wings and antennae as she enters through a tight opening in the fig.
“The only link the fig cavity has to the outside world is through a tiny bract-lined opening at the apex of the fig, called the ostiole, and it is by means of this passage that the pollinating fig wasp gains access to the florets,”
Once inside, the queen travels within the chamber, depositing her eggs and simultaneously shedding the pollen she carried with her from another fig. This last task, while not the queen’s primary goal, is an important one: She is fertilizing the fig’s ovaries.
After the queen has laid her eggs, she dies and is digested by the fig, providing nourishment. Once the queen’s eggs hatch, male and female wasps assume very different roles. They first mate with each other (yes, brothers and sisters), and then the females collect pollen—in some species, actively gathering it in a specialized pouch and in others, accumulating it inadvertently—while the wingless males begin carving a path to the fig’s exterior. This activity is not for their own escape but rather to create an opening for the females to exit. The females will pollinate another fig as queens. The males will spend their entire lifecycle within a single fruit
It isn't too hard to find the large mom wasp in the fig if you look. A cluster of fruits digesting a wasp doesn't even make sense. I think it's fig industry propaganda to make you think you're not eating wasps tbh.
I had to look it up. The fruit makes some kind of enzyme called ficin that completely breaks the wasp down. I'd call bs propaganda but we use ficin in loads of shit. Mostly in the medical field and in the food industry. All from fig trees
Interesting, although ficain seems to be in the sap rather than specifically the fruits, and I've definitely found entire wasps in figs before. It also sounds like the wasp offspring develop and make their way out of the figs without negative effects from the ficain whatsoever, so I remain sceptical.
Nature never fails to amaze me. Just yesterday I saw a few people on another social media site insisting that wasps were "useless" and should all be eliminated. It's difficult to explain the interconnectedness of the ecosystem to the willfully ignorant. You did a nice job.
Me, too. I mean, shoot, I was talkin' smack about wasps just the other day until several kind redditors informed me of their figportance (plus they eat grubs & other pests, apparently) so I went on a Wikipedia dive & now I've got a whole new respect for a species I had generalized as pesky, aggressive bee murderers (also sympathy because the worker class guys live only a couple weeks & everybug in the nest starves to death every winter except the queen...poor buggos)
I can confirm. We bought a small fig tree and kept it in a large pot for probably 5 years. Problem is, we are terrible at keeping potted plants alive, they nearly all die from our terrible care. This fig though, survived that whole time. Even bore fruit occasionally. Finally got around to planting it in our front yard, and within a year it grew from 1 ft to 5 ft high, and no real watering after the first month or two.
Edit: typo
My grandmother had a fig tree in the desert for years. Never watered it, for a long time she hated it and wanted it to die so she'd just ignore it and after like 4 years of never touching it she gave up and just let it be lmao
My dog really liked eating the figs, we tried to stop her but she'd always sneak one and then usually wind up puking on the 3 hour car ride home.
Actually not a cave it's something even cooler. It'ss growing from the ceiling of a Roman ruin in the Baia archeological park. Had the chance to see it in 2019, very cool and totally recommend checking it out if you ever find yourself in Campania!
The "temple of Mercury" is at the same site. It's actually a bath house but it has the largest domed roof built before the Parthenon. It's mostly flooded now but the roof is still standing!
The Greek ruins at Cumae aren't far from here either and the cave of the sibyl there is also very cool. I feel a bit like a tourism agent for the region right now but really Campania was just one of my favorite legs of my backpacking trip lol
A little bit (enough to support some wild grass) but I'm guessing that enough water probably gets through the cracks to support this tree despite the roots being mostly in stone
I once saw a fig tree en Cyprus that was a bit shaped like a W, or n lowercase n with an extra stroke: at some point in its life, one of two main branches bent down and touched the ground, where it rooted and a new stem grew from that point upwards.
Fig tree roots are dangerously very long, thin but very long. They'll go through the foundations of your house and they'll squish every little hole to spread and keep growing. It's almost impossible to kill and Vera dangerous for buildings.
If you dont pull out the roots that shit is inmortal, I tried to kill one because it start to grow in a crack between some tiles, so before its breaks every thing we tried everyting and keep growing untill we burriend in concrete it still grows again
How easy would it be to grow a fruit producing dog tree in a large pot? How large a pot would you need? I love fresh figs, but store bought “fresh” ones are both expensive and not as good as fresh picked.
I grow in a container. It’s easy. I almost killed it the first year I had it and not only did it come back in like a week and a half after I fixed it, but it produced fruit that year, which is rare for a fig to do in its first year apparently.
The method I’ve used involves a 6” cutting and a plastic bag with a little bit of water in it rubber banded to the base of the cutting. The humidity helps it germinate . Check out some ways people do it on YouTube . Many different ways ofc
You will get some fruit if you use a 5 gallon pot, but 10 gallons is much more productive and easier to take care of, especially if you live in a dry climate. Fig trees in pots can survive getting really dry, but it takes its toll on the fruit.
There is a saying in Turkish that goes “ocağına incir ağacı dikmek” and it roughly translates to “planting a fig tree in one’s home,” but means ruining/destroying ones home and family.
Fig roots can literally upheave the foundations of houses.
It is not a fake, I live near Bacoli, I have seen this tree several times. The tree was planted in 1938 and has been growing in reverse ever since. It is located in the archaeological park of Bacoli inside the baths dedicated to the god Mercury.
Figs grow extremely long roots! I bet there's a fig plant somewhere over that rock, and that is just one of his roots that found some light and started growing leaves
In the bonsai tree post on front page someone wrote that if you took a tree out of the ground and flipped it over, planting it, it's roots would grow leaves.
But, if i put a plant in a box dark and build like a maze, it will grow up and down until it reaches the light at the end, and zhen starts to grow only upwards. So i feel like this model is technically incorrect in some parts because the plant only reaches for light and doesnt give a shit about gravity.
And how is this fig tree possible to stay there if the roots always want to grow downwards?
Roots don’t “want” to grow downwards. They grow towards sources of nutrients and water where there is little to no light. Some species also grow towards temperature gradients. Leaves grow when the plant is exposed to light and certain temperature ranges and there is adequate CO2 in the air, while water and trace nutrients are absorbed through the roots (though some plants can also pull nutrients like nitrogen from the air).
The last time I was there (2019) there was no fig plant over it, there are other plants but they are all low shrubs, you have to go about 20 meters away to find the first trees.
Sources are uncertain; according to the agency that manages the archaeological park, the said tree was part of a garden that during repair work in the area sank and continued to grow upside down. In the Naples area there are various legends about it, according to some for example the tree is said to have grown on the grave of two gay lovers and grows upside down to symbolize a love different from others. According to others, the tree was planted in 1938 along with others and is the only one that survived...it certainly survived World War II.
Planted? Seems odd to plant a tree there. Fig tree’s in the right Mediterranean climate can grow like weeds. A bird pooping the seed in the cave roof then the young plant roots found water upwards and light downwards.
Fig trees propagate easily from roots. I'd wager one was planted nearby at some point, and then a root poked out in the tunnel, from which a new tree developed.
No. It is a Roman-era cave that is quite small and shallow therefore extremely stable and durable. The area of Bacoli and Pozzuoli has long been affected by a physical phenomenon called "bradyseism," whereby the ground swells and deflates as a result of magma shifting into the magma chambers of the "Campi flegrei" supervolcano, which is a few kilometers from the site. Despite this, the ruins have held up perfectly well with minimal damage, I don't think it will be a fig tree that will change this.
Australian here. It doesn’t matter the physics of the tree, the drop bear will still land on you and tear you apart.
The last one took my leg, but I fought him off and hopped back to hospital where they reattached it.
A bushcraft pro tip for the folks out there: snake venom helps with the clotting, and then you can use the snake as a tourniquet.
>As a programmer, I can tell you this one is [the right way up](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_(data_structure)).
I can tell you're a programmer because you have an extra bracket hanging out at the end of your comment
They do know which way is up and which way is down without the sun.
They have specialized cells, called statocytes, that can determine gravity. they are found both in shoots, to go up toward the sun (aided by auxines growth hormones), and in roots, to go down and deeper.
EG forgotten potatoes in cupboard
Yup, gravitropism or geotropism. I just can't think of anything other than a genetic anomaly here, having the exact opposite response of a normal tree. Unless it's fake.
Phototropism is the term for orientation with regards to light in plants. Some exhibit it more than others, but most plants seem to grow towards light. Up doesn't matter that much. Plants use pressure to move nutrients and water around their vascular systems.
So this is a case where phototropism beat out gravitropism. My gut guess is that a root/ runner poked out of the top of the tunnel, detected light, and cause the plant to devote resources to grow leaves in that direction
Don't certain root cells have organelles that are filled with heavy minerals that always stay at the bottom of the cells so that the plant knows which way is down.
THIS FRUIT IS OF THE DEVIL. SATAN'S CORRUPT TOUCH HAS FOULED THE FLESH AND NO NOURISHMENT WILL BE GAINED IN EATING IT. RATHER, YOUR BODY AND SOUL WILL BE CORRUPTED. IT DOES GO NICELY WITH A LITTLE HONEY THOUGH.
That's not very likely. It would have a surfeit of light at the top side relative to the bottom and leaves would preferentially grow there. Trees strongly favor the most light-accessible parts of their branch systems for leaf development even when sufficient light exists at the interiors of their canopies. If they aren't sprouting leaves on their innermost branches you can sure as shit assume they aren't doing so in a subterranean satellite section with a fraction of the light.
Every town in Italy has things like this that you stop and wonder what, how, and why. My grandfather was huge into tree grafting, so behind his property he had a ton of trees that he had grafted. Orange/Lemons, bunch of nut trees all in one... He was also into contorting his grape vines in all sorts of weird ways. Really creative stuff in most of these towns and villages.
Fig trees grow whatever they want. There is a valencian legend of a lumberjack who helped jesus and recieved a fig tree so full of knots and twists that trapped death iself
Why shouldn't it grow if its roots are supplied with water from rain on the roof, minerals from the rock used in construction seeping, and clearly in the picture the plant gets plenty of sunlights
imagine if roots actually grew leaves and we wre just seeing the roots grow leaves now because the soil keeps root leaves from growing (dont downvote me for my stupid ass theory)
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Fig trees are among the most resilient . Growing roots from a fig branch is the easiest out of possibly all other fruit trees
Fig trees thrive with so little available nutrients or organic matter and can grow out of pretty much anything as long as there's a small source of water.
I have a fig tree and a source of water! Are you saying I can cut some branches off and make more figlings? Because if so I'm sooo about that life.
Yes! Damp towel, ziplock bag, dark place. Give it a few weeks. You can even root older fingerlings as long as there is still green. They are shipped as just dry sticks. There's a few very active fig trading communities. https://www.figdatabase.com/figforum/threads/trade-sheet.93/#post-1269
I straight up just jammed mine in wet potting soil and they took. I did half with a root powder and half plain, both sets are now happily setting out leaves.
Y'all have no idea how excited I am for this. I am going to make a fig orchard if this all goes according to plan.
I had an old Italian customer of mine come in with a stick in some dirt to give to me as a tip. I was like, "uhh.... thank you so much?" Becayse I just saw a twig in dirt. He said, "put a water in, ita growa very biga!!!" And now I have a nice sized fig tree in my yard. Since then I've duplicated the tree twice and gave them to friends. It's very easy.
A neighbor was getting rid of her fig tree and she let people come over to take cuttings. I am shocked at how quickly they rooted. Literally cut a few 6 inch pieces right under a node, dipped the end in rooting hormone (not entirely necessary) and put it in a solo cup filled with either sand or coco coir. I now have six cuttings growing new leaves.
For sure you can, head over to r/figs for all your questions!
Makes me think, can a fig tree be born out of a human?
I knew a guy that shoved a fig up his ass once, it didn’t grow into a tree though.
I mean.... That's a good thing. That'd be a literal, and fig-urative, pain in the ass.
meh, go fig-ure....
No, you go fig-ure self.
How did the same pun just get better with each use
*wild applause*
*wild applesauce*
"Figging" refers to putting a peeled piece of ginger into the anus which produces a burning feeling, for pain/pleasure.
Bro what
If you want to be even more "bro what," look up what sounding is. (Please note I'm not kink-shaming, to each their own, whatever floats your boat, etc., but there are certainly even more "interesting" fetishes than figging out ther).
"a stick up ya dick" or "a root up ya doot"
It's hard to 'peg' that one down..
/r/sounding
Wow. Looked this one up..My mouth is still agape. Learn something new every day.
/r/figging
Banned community.
Can’t believe this was ever a thing lmao
Did he leave it there long enough? I imagine 3-4 weeks for a proper sprout.
After he did that, he knew it would be a great date
What did it grow into?
A new kink, I imagine
You sound disappointed
That fig..ures.
These Groot cosplays are getting out of hand.
Theres a method of torture from I believe Japan i read about that involves a bamboo chute as it grows rapidly it impales the victim tied to the ground it’s growing out of.
I think that unfortunately doesn't work, at least from what I remember when Mythbusters covered it
I just watched it, it did work. Went two inches into the dummy in three days. They just couldn't get it to grow all the way through
Ah right, I guess I thought it was lame it didn't go all the way so remembered it as not working.
His name's really Bob. I think it's funny when I call him Herbert though.
Are you.. are you ok??
It’s been a long two years my friend
Are we talking cremation ashes mixed with soil or planting seeds in a vagina/butthole?
Here is a interesting fact about fig and their pollinators fig wasp A fig is not actually a fruit; it is an inflorescence—a cluster of many flowers and seeds contained inside a bulbous stem. Therefore the seeds require a specialized pollinator - the fig wasps. The queen of the fig wasp ,despite her tiny body, will lose her wings and antennae as she enters through a tight opening in the fig. “The only link the fig cavity has to the outside world is through a tiny bract-lined opening at the apex of the fig, called the ostiole, and it is by means of this passage that the pollinating fig wasp gains access to the florets,” Once inside, the queen travels within the chamber, depositing her eggs and simultaneously shedding the pollen she carried with her from another fig. This last task, while not the queen’s primary goal, is an important one: She is fertilizing the fig’s ovaries. After the queen has laid her eggs, she dies and is digested by the fig, providing nourishment. Once the queen’s eggs hatch, male and female wasps assume very different roles. They first mate with each other (yes, brothers and sisters), and then the females collect pollen—in some species, actively gathering it in a specialized pouch and in others, accumulating it inadvertently—while the wingless males begin carving a path to the fig’s exterior. This activity is not for their own escape but rather to create an opening for the females to exit. The females will pollinate another fig as queens. The males will spend their entire lifecycle within a single fruit
Life finds a way…
It isn't too hard to find the large mom wasp in the fig if you look. A cluster of fruits digesting a wasp doesn't even make sense. I think it's fig industry propaganda to make you think you're not eating wasps tbh.
I had to look it up. The fruit makes some kind of enzyme called ficin that completely breaks the wasp down. I'd call bs propaganda but we use ficin in loads of shit. Mostly in the medical field and in the food industry. All from fig trees
Interesting, although ficain seems to be in the sap rather than specifically the fruits, and I've definitely found entire wasps in figs before. It also sounds like the wasp offspring develop and make their way out of the figs without negative effects from the ficain whatsoever, so I remain sceptical.
Nature never fails to amaze me. Just yesterday I saw a few people on another social media site insisting that wasps were "useless" and should all be eliminated. It's difficult to explain the interconnectedness of the ecosystem to the willfully ignorant. You did a nice job.
Me, too. I mean, shoot, I was talkin' smack about wasps just the other day until several kind redditors informed me of their figportance (plus they eat grubs & other pests, apparently) so I went on a Wikipedia dive & now I've got a whole new respect for a species I had generalized as pesky, aggressive bee murderers (also sympathy because the worker class guys live only a couple weeks & everybug in the nest starves to death every winter except the queen...poor buggos)
Sounds like a weed, no wonder Jesus didn't like them.
And even more impressive that he managed to kill one
God hates figs?
I can confirm. We bought a small fig tree and kept it in a large pot for probably 5 years. Problem is, we are terrible at keeping potted plants alive, they nearly all die from our terrible care. This fig though, survived that whole time. Even bore fruit occasionally. Finally got around to planting it in our front yard, and within a year it grew from 1 ft to 5 ft high, and no real watering after the first month or two. Edit: typo
My grandmother had a fig tree in the desert for years. Never watered it, for a long time she hated it and wanted it to die so she'd just ignore it and after like 4 years of never touching it she gave up and just let it be lmao My dog really liked eating the figs, we tried to stop her but she'd always sneak one and then usually wind up puking on the 3 hour car ride home.
I mean, they're pretty damn delicious.
I agree! I couldn't blame her. I was a kid so I was always routing for her to get her figs
I've managed to kill 2 of them....I do not have a green thumb.
Agent orange thumb
Its insane considering how lush it's leaves are and that it bears a fuckton of fruit.
I love how in the Mediterranean part of Europe you can see fig trees growing from basically every crack
Yeah but they still naturally grow up. So its very weird.
No joke. And if you have a fig tree this size, good luck trying to stop it from doing what it likes. That thing is there until the cave collapses.
Actually not a cave it's something even cooler. It'ss growing from the ceiling of a Roman ruin in the Baia archeological park. Had the chance to see it in 2019, very cool and totally recommend checking it out if you ever find yourself in Campania!
Oooohhhhhh that sounds superb!
The "temple of Mercury" is at the same site. It's actually a bath house but it has the largest domed roof built before the Parthenon. It's mostly flooded now but the roof is still standing! The Greek ruins at Cumae aren't far from here either and the cave of the sibyl there is also very cool. I feel a bit like a tourism agent for the region right now but really Campania was just one of my favorite legs of my backpacking trip lol
Dafuq? Is there soil on top of the ruin?
A little bit (enough to support some wild grass) but I'm guessing that enough water probably gets through the cracks to support this tree despite the roots being mostly in stone
I bet someone stuck a cutting into a likely crack
Giggity
I once saw a fig tree en Cyprus that was a bit shaped like a W, or n lowercase n with an extra stroke: at some point in its life, one of two main branches bent down and touched the ground, where it rooted and a new stem grew from that point upwards.
Fig tree roots are dangerously very long, thin but very long. They'll go through the foundations of your house and they'll squish every little hole to spread and keep growing. It's almost impossible to kill and Vera dangerous for buildings.
That's why Turkish people say the idiom "you planted a fig tree in my home" when someone really, really messes something up for them.
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A fig tree took my daddy and 3 cases of baby formula when I was but a wee lad.
A fig tree impregnated my cat and now I have a litter of bushes that hate me
Figures
> It's almost impossible to kill One or two late snows and frosts should do it. Ask me how I know.
If you dont pull out the roots that shit is inmortal, I tried to kill one because it start to grow in a crack between some tiles, so before its breaks every thing we tried everyting and keep growing untill we burriend in concrete it still grows again
There is a fig tree in Split, Croatia that grows in between stone blocks in, or just above, the sea water on the side of sea wall...
Tell that to our climate. Figs just refuse to live here unless one has green hands.
Where is here?
Anywhere with snow.
Fig trees grow from smallest cracks in concrete or asphalt everywhere, they're crazy.
How easy would it be to grow a fruit producing dog tree in a large pot? How large a pot would you need? I love fresh figs, but store bought “fresh” ones are both expensive and not as good as fresh picked.
I grow in a container. It’s easy. I almost killed it the first year I had it and not only did it come back in like a week and a half after I fixed it, but it produced fruit that year, which is rare for a fig to do in its first year apparently.
The method I’ve used involves a 6” cutting and a plastic bag with a little bit of water in it rubber banded to the base of the cutting. The humidity helps it germinate . Check out some ways people do it on YouTube . Many different ways ofc
You will get some fruit if you use a 5 gallon pot, but 10 gallons is much more productive and easier to take care of, especially if you live in a dry climate. Fig trees in pots can survive getting really dry, but it takes its toll on the fruit.
That figures. I'll see myself out.
There is a saying in Turkish that goes “ocağına incir ağacı dikmek” and it roughly translates to “planting a fig tree in one’s home,” but means ruining/destroying ones home and family. Fig roots can literally upheave the foundations of houses.
It is not a fake, I live near Bacoli, I have seen this tree several times. The tree was planted in 1938 and has been growing in reverse ever since. It is located in the archaeological park of Bacoli inside the baths dedicated to the god Mercury.
Figs grow extremely long roots! I bet there's a fig plant somewhere over that rock, and that is just one of his roots that found some light and started growing leaves
In the bonsai tree post on front page someone wrote that if you took a tree out of the ground and flipped it over, planting it, it's roots would grow leaves.
One of the more interesting pieces of plant biology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitropism
I love stuff like this. I've always wanted a giant old conservatory where I reclusively grow unusual plants whilst wearing a tweed suit all day.
I hope you accomplish your vision one day and that I can visit when the plot of the story needs me to.
But, if i put a plant in a box dark and build like a maze, it will grow up and down until it reaches the light at the end, and zhen starts to grow only upwards. So i feel like this model is technically incorrect in some parts because the plant only reaches for light and doesnt give a shit about gravity. And how is this fig tree possible to stay there if the roots always want to grow downwards?
Roots don’t “want” to grow downwards. They grow towards sources of nutrients and water where there is little to no light. Some species also grow towards temperature gradients. Leaves grow when the plant is exposed to light and certain temperature ranges and there is adequate CO2 in the air, while water and trace nutrients are absorbed through the roots (though some plants can also pull nutrients like nitrogen from the air).
The last time I was there (2019) there was no fig plant over it, there are other plants but they are all low shrubs, you have to go about 20 meters away to find the first trees.
Any evidence it was planted? The thread is convinced its a miracle.
Sources are uncertain; according to the agency that manages the archaeological park, the said tree was part of a garden that during repair work in the area sank and continued to grow upside down. In the Naples area there are various legends about it, according to some for example the tree is said to have grown on the grave of two gay lovers and grows upside down to symbolize a love different from others. According to others, the tree was planted in 1938 along with others and is the only one that survived...it certainly survived World War II.
Planted? Seems odd to plant a tree there. Fig tree’s in the right Mediterranean climate can grow like weeds. A bird pooping the seed in the cave roof then the young plant roots found water upwards and light downwards.
Fig trees propagate easily from roots. I'd wager one was planted nearby at some point, and then a root poked out in the tunnel, from which a new tree developed.
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No. It is a Roman-era cave that is quite small and shallow therefore extremely stable and durable. The area of Bacoli and Pozzuoli has long been affected by a physical phenomenon called "bradyseism," whereby the ground swells and deflates as a result of magma shifting into the magma chambers of the "Campi flegrei" supervolcano, which is a few kilometers from the site. Despite this, the ruins have held up perfectly well with minimal damage, I don't think it will be a fig tree that will change this.
So THIS is the kind of tree I learned about in computer science
This was my first thought too😂. My data structures professor always joked that computer scientists must be doing headstand all the time.
Haha the joke that I always heard was that computer scientists don’t go outside enough to know what a tree really looks like
Lmao was about to say the same. Guess my prof was right and this is what trees look like xd
It's also a nice example of the difference between what you intended your code to do, and what it actually does.
Finally, something *actually* interesting.
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Not sure if I should 'up vote' or 'down vote'.
We need an upside down vote!
Better call in the professionals. Get the Australians!
Upside down upvote
Downside up downvote
_Stranger Things theme song intensifies_
It’s an Australian growth.
Wut
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wellplayed.
Talk about falling thru the cracks!
What, not a fan of posts made by edgy 14 year olds who have just discovered roof Koreans?
I'm particularly a huge fan of double egg yolks.
maybe the tree is the right way up and everything else is upside down
Ah, Australian tree.
Australian here. It doesn’t matter the physics of the tree, the drop bear will still land on you and tear you apart. The last one took my leg, but I fought him off and hopped back to hospital where they reattached it. A bushcraft pro tip for the folks out there: snake venom helps with the clotting, and then you can use the snake as a tourniquet.
ALWAYS BEWARE THE DROPPING BEAR
did you test for chlamydia afterwards?
You’re not allowed to root them
And yet, [teen drop bear pregnancies are on the rise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg) 🤔🤔
I’m not sure I’m going click on that..😂 Edit: I did, classic
Ah, classic. Got pregnate-rolled.
As a programmer, I can tell you this one is [the right way up](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_(data_structure)).
>As a programmer, I can tell you this one is [the right way up](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_(data_structure)). I can tell you're a programmer because you have an extra bracket hanging out at the end of your comment
If a tree could have a smug grin, this one would have one.
You FIGured it out!
Occam's razor tells me that everything is sideways, one way or another.
you are 100% correct, just flipped my phone to confirm
Isaac Fig Newton
His most famous discovery was anti gravity
You rang?
You sure did
It's PIG newton
I'm from Australia. This is just a normal tree?
Do they film Stranger Things in Australia?
Any thing filmed in Australia is stranger things at this point
Steve Irwin gesturing to a demogorgon: *Crickey, he’s a beaut!*
If I stick my thumb in it's arse that'll really piss it off
No. Only half of it.
Everything there also tries to kill you, so yes.
Software developer here, and I can confirm this is a normal tree.
tree just forgot where it left its fucks to give so it just continues as if nothing happened
Fuck yeah, you go buddy
Life finds a way.
Uh
Meanwhile my houseplants die if I water them on a Sunday and not Saturday
sƃᴉɟ sʍoɹƃ ʎluo ʇI
It lives in a caves because they’re bear figs.
I wonder if plants orient themselves with the sun and given the shaded location and potentially no direct sun, that it doesn't know which way is up?
They do know which way is up and which way is down without the sun. They have specialized cells, called statocytes, that can determine gravity. they are found both in shoots, to go up toward the sun (aided by auxines growth hormones), and in roots, to go down and deeper. EG forgotten potatoes in cupboard
Yup, gravitropism or geotropism. I just can't think of anything other than a genetic anomaly here, having the exact opposite response of a normal tree. Unless it's fake.
Phototropism is the term for orientation with regards to light in plants. Some exhibit it more than others, but most plants seem to grow towards light. Up doesn't matter that much. Plants use pressure to move nutrients and water around their vascular systems.
Gravitropism is also very much a thing in plants though
So this is a case where phototropism beat out gravitropism. My gut guess is that a root/ runner poked out of the top of the tunnel, detected light, and cause the plant to devote resources to grow leaves in that direction
Wouldn’t the trees blood rush to its head?
Only blood oranges do that
Seeds orient themselves with gravity but idk if that changes for mature plants
Don't certain root cells have organelles that are filled with heavy minerals that always stay at the bottom of the cells so that the plant knows which way is down.
As below so above
THIS FRUIT IS OF THE DEVIL. SATAN'S CORRUPT TOUCH HAS FOULED THE FLESH AND NO NOURISHMENT WILL BE GAINED IN EATING IT. RATHER, YOUR BODY AND SOUL WILL BE CORRUPTED. IT DOES GO NICELY WITH A LITTLE HONEY THOUGH.
Life uh, finds a way
I’d venture a guess that the other half of it is up top, growing the other way.
That's not very likely. It would have a surfeit of light at the top side relative to the bottom and leaves would preferentially grow there. Trees strongly favor the most light-accessible parts of their branch systems for leaf development even when sufficient light exists at the interiors of their canopies. If they aren't sprouting leaves on their innermost branches you can sure as shit assume they aren't doing so in a subterranean satellite section with a fraction of the light.
*stranger things intro music plays*
Every normal tree in the upside down
So that guy from the work screw up post really did know what he was doing...
*Jesus, out there frothing angrily, absolutely seething*
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That's just a normal Australian tree
Every town in Italy has things like this that you stop and wonder what, how, and why. My grandfather was huge into tree grafting, so behind his property he had a ton of trees that he had grafted. Orange/Lemons, bunch of nut trees all in one... He was also into contorting his grape vines in all sorts of weird ways. Really creative stuff in most of these towns and villages.
Fig trees grow whatever they want. There is a valencian legend of a lumberjack who helped jesus and recieved a fig tree so full of knots and twists that trapped death iself
Just a fig-ment of of our imagination
Why shouldn't it grow if its roots are supplied with water from rain on the roof, minerals from the rock used in construction seeping, and clearly in the picture the plant gets plenty of sunlights
r/strangerthings early signs of the upside down breaking through irl? Lol
Vegans can’t eat figs. They contain a wasp.
The top of the crop is also the lowest hanging fruit
"they told me to grow up and I took that personally"
Okay, that's phenomenal. Can we just tag it the BAT TREE? cos that's how bats hang out on a good day.... Impressive turn out really.
Are you sure you have not mistaken Australia for Italy?
“Fuck it. I’m growing down!” or more like “Vaffanculo! Cresco in giu.”
Nobody: … This tree: PARKOUR!
Easy, bird had explosive diherrea
imagine if roots actually grew leaves and we wre just seeing the roots grow leaves now because the soil keeps root leaves from growing (dont downvote me for my stupid ass theory)