• Billiam@lemmy.world
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    Because corporate logos are intentionally designed to evoke the brand they represent?

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        Also most of the logos are just the name next to an icon. Plants only occasionally have thier name written next to them.

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      Also most people have little to no reason to identify plants. Most of the time we don’t even eat the whole plant, we eat the fruit or the root or some very specific part of the plant. You could easily identify a potato, but could you identify a potato plant? There are a lot of plants where you see a part of it in the store but you’ve never seen the entire plant. I never knew I had asparagus growing in the garden because what is sold in the store is not what grown asparagus looks like. We don’t eat grown asparagus, we eat the young shoots before they’ve turned woody. A grown asparagus is inedible and the berries are toxic.

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    If you can’t recognize most of the plants in the produce section, you really oughta be eating more fruits and vegetables. I don’t really like veggies either and I still know more than 10 plants just in the category of food you can buy with a corporate logo on it.

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      Vegetables are often the root of the plant. Fruits are the… well fruit.

      I think the context of this meme is about the plant as a specimen in nature.

      Below is a picture of a carrot plant and onion plant.

      If not for survival video games i would not have known.

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        You R E A L L Y want to get your carrots/parsnips right when it comes to ID, though. Water hemlock is fatal if ingested, and several parsnips will give you gnarly blisters if you come into contact with their sap

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        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum

        And the carrot plant looks near identical to Giant Hogsweed because they’re both in the same family. One has a delicious carrot underneath and will do you no harm, you can even eat the green tops. The other will cause you severe burns even just by brushing against it. The plant itself doesn’t even burn you, it destroys the skin in such a way that sunshine is what burns you.

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          hogweed is hogwild. my wife has these strange white scars all over her legs, arms, and chest because she was weed whacking in shorts and a spaghetti top and hogweed juice sprayed on her. she has somewhat darker skin so the scars stand out. she does not weed whack in anything but full coverage now. the scars are slowly fading but it’s been about 5 months and they’re still very prominent.

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            oof. That was an excessively painful comment to read.

            As they say: safety rules are written in hogweed sap.

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          Typically you’ll have to break the stem, right?

          Giant hogweed really is quite large, often more than head-height - you’re more likely to confuse carrot with cow parsley or hemlock or maybe yarrow, I’d have thought.

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        onion flowers are my favorite type of flower. when they’re in full bloom they get so pretty. i have a patch of bunching onions that i barely even eat, just keep them for the flowers each year. the patch is growing because each flower produces dozens of seeds

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          Ever eat the buds? Very much a delicacy. Eat them before they start to open or they get papery.

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              You can also cut the flowers off after they open, and submerge them in white vinegar for 2-3 weeks, then strain. I do this with chive flowers (packed into the jar, but not so much there’s no room for liquid) and it makes a bright pink garlic chive vinegar that is really lovely. Onion would do the same, but probs look and taste a bit different.

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    Let’s make sure to shame the people being bombarded by advertisements for 90% of their lives. That’ll motivate them to be more cognizant of botany

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      This could as easily be read as a critique of modern capitalism for that very reason.

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    Broccoli, cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, bok choy, turnip, radish, collards and Mustard greens. 10 different plants, easy peasy!

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    To be fair, corporate logos are specifically designed to take advantage of quirks in human cognition to make them distinct and memorable. Most plants pre-date human cognition, and the ones which don’t tend to be the ones people recognize instantly.

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    How many of those plants do ppl use in their daily lives? vs How many of those corporate products do they use in their daily lives?

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    If the names of the plants would be spelled for me under each plant every time then that would greatly enhance my memory.

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    In fairness if plants had their names written on them, I’d probably be able to identify those as well.

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      I knew there was something wrong with my place in Phoenix, AZ. Dang Democrats stole the forest!

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        And the golf courses and lawns have made it humid! I thought it was supposed to be a “dry heat,” fucking over 100° and 70% humidity every single time I have to visit. Either that of freezing. One time it snowed… IN PHOENIX! Well, technically Mesa, but that’s just a suburb of Phoenix.

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          Mesa is one of those places they put several man made lakes in to make people think they could do watersports in their housing development. And in reality it just humidifies the heat and breeds mosquitos.