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From the Vault: The Vegetable Lamb, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Origins of the Myth of the Plant That Grows

The basic relationship between this plant and the plant surrounding it is not that crazy i mean one of the things we discuss is that sometimes the the places where you see the most dynamic interactions in the plant world are between one plant and another. Even if it's just two bean plants uh looking at the same pole not looking at it or sensing each other there's a competition for  that resource. There's no need for some sort of a fabulous sheep morph that grows out of the plant because the battle is taking place at the chemical level, he says.

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