c/comicstrips · by katze@lemmy.cafe · 1yNeighbors | Poorly Drawn Lines 340 points · 14 comments · view on lemmy.world
14 Comments
a14o@feddit.org · 46 pts · 1y
Not sure if this is indended or not, but the somewhat controversial mother tree hypothesis stipulates exactly this -- trees borrowing carbohydrates (sugar) from neighbors via mycorrhizal networks.
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 1y
ya beat me to it
four@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
Do they use cups though?
angrystego@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I thought the small one was a parasite - wanting the sugar. It would work as a joke with specific taxa.
cholesterol@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
You'd think a solar powered sugar factory would know about sugar.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 1y
They understand the sugar; they don't know what a cup is.
whaleross@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Fun fact of the day: Xylitol is a type of sugar that is extracted from trees, typically from birch.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
The mycelium network connecting them knows.
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 6 pts · 1y
Who tf puts sugar in a cup
expatriado@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
someone baking cookies on a recipe that calls for a cup of sugar
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
Like a small cup or a big cup? I'd rather just use my scale, it's important to be accurate when baking
Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y
villainy@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 1y
"You want some cream?"
"Uh... Yeah."
Unzips
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y