People typically think of plants as unsophisticated and less evolved. In reality, plants have been around for like 500 million years. Neil D'Naysha is delighted to discover that there is a nursery out west that sells Boquila trifolio lot of plants. They come from clippings but they've had them for a while. And they shipped one to me at $17. It's only about eight inches tall and is not in the best shape,. But I'm going to be putting this next to one of my other plants.
In the temperate rainforests of Chile, there is a vine that can shapeshift to copy the look of other plants. But how? Can it... see them? Or is something weirder happening?
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