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Q&A What properties would make a plant ideal for use on a space ship?

What properties of a species of plant would make it the ideal choice for taking it on a year-long trip through space as both an oxygen source and food source? We should assume that the amount of ...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Philipp‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Philipp‭

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Q&A How to design a hyper-coffee plant

How much caffeine could you fit into a roasted coffee bean (that will later be ground and steeped) while still having a strong coffee flavor? I'm aiming for a super-caffeine boost -- something whe...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by FoxElemental‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by FoxElemental‭

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Q&A Can a planet harbor plants of different colors without one pigment outcompeting the others?

On Earth, all plants are green because they contain the pigment chlorophyll, which photosynthesizes by absorbing all light except green light. However, it is quite possible - if not likely - that ...

13 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by SealBoi‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by SealBoi‭

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Q&A Tree volcano? (A "treecano", if you will)

Okay, so I have a species of tree that's absolutely enormous, 1-5km tall when fully matured. Its immense size is supported by a large base, bark that incorporates a 2-d carbon lattice for strength ...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Z.Schroeder‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Z.Schroeder‭

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Q&A How much Light energy would it require to run an underground Photosynthetic ecosystem?

I have a world that consists of hundreds of different caverns inside an earth-sized planet. Each of these many caverns consists of many different biomes, such as plains, Jungles,deserts,etc. Howev...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Red_Wasp‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Red_Wasp‭

Question biology caves flora
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Q&A What would kill all flora on Earth and what would happen with the atmosphere

I need an Earth where the atmosphere has become unbreathable for humans and animals because all plants have died. But everything else should stay pretty much the same. So here are my questions: ...

7 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by yado‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by yado‭

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Q&A How would a plant adapted to living at -23 degrees Celsius keep ice from clogging its stomata?

Full version of the question: How would a plant adapted to living at -23 degrees Celsius keep the water vapor it transpirates from flash freezing to the surface of/within its leaves and clogging it...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by KernelOfChaos‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by KernelOfChaos‭

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Q&A What happens to plants when the temperature increases a lot in a couple of years?

Consider an area of a fantasy world which experiences the following changes: Amount on rainfall, and thunderstorms, increases dramatically. Average temperature increases by 10-20 degrees Celsius ...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Tommi‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Tommi‭

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Q&A What factors determine the type of tree in a given area?

The title of this question is fairly self-explanatory. I am developing a fantasy world, and I want to know what factors determine what kinds of trees I can have, where I can put them, and why. I ...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Thomas Myron‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Thomas Myron‭

Question climate flora
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Q&A How might Plants produce flames?

We all know of plants that draw in animals with sweet nectar or even just sit around hoping an insect will sit on it and get caught, but I'm imagining a forest dimly lit by the flickering flames of...

9 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Mourdos‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Mourdos‭

Question flora food
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Q&A Is this a viable/realistic imaginary species?

I am creating a species for my alien world that will be seen as 'holy' by the planets dominant religion. I'd like to know if my 'holy' species could viably exist biologically/evolutionarily. Assu...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Teanna Schmaeh‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Teanna Schmaeh‭

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Q&A Killer seeds for the sake of early plant growth

This plant I am designing grows on earth, in locations where competition between plants is fierce, water is scarce and also nutrients in the soil are diluted. The dilution requires the plant roots ...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by L.Dutch - Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by L.Dutch - Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A Solving the vulnerabilities of a plant-based life-form's civilization: sunlight, roots, and hibernation

Say you are a plant-based life-form (imagine a walking tree). You have roots and leaves. You have two main vulnerabilities: You need sunlight on your leaves for photosynthesis to get energy. Y...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Inbar Rose‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Inbar Rose‭

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Q&A If I made a plant that could float between clouds, what would it look like?

If I had complete control over the plant's appearance, what would be the best shape for it? I need the plant to be able to float between the clouds. It doesn't have to spend its whole life cycle f...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Nuloen The Seeker‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Nuloen The Seeker‭

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Q&A How much darker could the sun get without killing off the plants necessary for the production of oxygen?

So essentially in my story, aliens put something around the sun that doesn't stop all the light from it hitting Earth, but only some of it, effectively dimming the light without outright extinguish...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Sydney Sleeper‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Sydney Sleeper‭

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Q&A Humans as pollinators

Plants can have very different pollinators: The wind, insects, and even birds. However, is there a conceivable scenario where a plant could naturally have evolved to depend on humans as pollinators...

6 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by celtschk‭

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Q&A How to make sure humans do not know the meteorological phenomenon rainbow?

You've got to love the rainbow, it's an awesome sight. But I don't want humans to have the pleasure of seeing the rainbow. What change to the earth, atmosphere and so on, is needed so that humans ...

16 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Rolf ツ‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Rolf ツ‭

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Q&A Can a Prototaxite be used for a wood equivalent?

Prototaxites. Giant, finger-shaped mushrooms. Painting by Mary Parrish, National Museum of Natural History. These monsters existed before trees did, and while there are a few theories on whethe...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Andon‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Andon‭

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Q&A Could ancient seeds buried deep in subsoil sprout given the right conditions?

A friend of mine was telling me about a story where a man clear cut a diverse ecosystem of plants in an area similar to size and shape of a small caldera (not necessarily a caldera itself). Eventu...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Carlo‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Carlo‭

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Q&A How quickly do forests spread in a temperate climate?

On a continent similar to modern-day Europe with a temperate climate, 90% of the continent's flat and hilly land was once covered by native forest. Human activity has reduced that to 10%. A relati...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Quadratic Wizard‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Quadratic Wizard‭

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Q&A What fruits and vegetable could people grow 6 000 years BC?

Considering a civilization that was here far before everything we know of, lets say around time of Gilgamesh. Warm climate, almost no winters, near the ocean with enough rivers, and people being ab...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by neko‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by neko‭

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Q&A What would a civilization living in a cold, permanently snowy climate eat?

The setting would be an almost permanently snowy climate. Average temperature 10 to -5 degrees celsius, with little difference between seasons. Edit: This is a human civilization. I suppose the cl...

10 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Janack‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Janack‭

Question climate flora food
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Q&A Could a plant grow on a building taller than mount Everest?

I was wondering if it was possible to potentially grow a plant on a building taller than mount Everest. I mean on as in bottom to top with grass or some other plant. Would the grass run out of oxyg...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by AdrienDaBoss‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by AdrienDaBoss‭

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Q&A Biochemistry of Plants harnessing heat-energy when blue-shifted light is scarce

What biochemical reactions might be employed by plants to harvest heat energy when light energy is scarce or even missing? What is the temperature range over which this biochemical reaction can wor...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Christmas Snow‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Christmas Snow‭

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Q&A Tree bark on tidally locked planets

I saw this video, and I'm curious what color bark would be if the sun was in one position constantly. The video explains that birch trees are white because of stuff in their bark. The reason is be...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by GoingFTL‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by GoingFTL‭

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Q&A What do mushroom-corals use to build their skeletons?

The world is a steamy tropical ball reminiscient of Earth in the time of the dinosaurs. There is no permanent ice cover anywhere on Earth. An arctic continent, entirely within the polar circle, is ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by kingledion‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by kingledion‭

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Q&A Creating a dark world - What kind of flora can I get away with

Primary question If this world averages a visible light level of civil twilight (about 1000x dimmer than full daylight, or 500x brighter than full moonlight) during the day, what kind of plants ca...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by BornToDoStuff‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by BornToDoStuff‭

Question environment flora
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Q&A What would the flora on a Methane world be like?

Linked: What would animal life on a methane world look like and how would it evolve? What would the conditions on a methane world be like? How would an intelligent race on a methane world achiev...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by JDSweetBeat‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by JDSweetBeat‭

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Q&A Is a man-eating plant realistic?

Carnivorous plants live in nutrient-poor, highly lit habitats, such as bogs or rocks. For example Earth's biggest carnivorous plant, Nepenthes rajah, lives on mountain-tops with high concentration ...

11 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Pavel V.‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Pavel V.‭

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Q&A How do we create an Anemone Tree?

Those of you who have been listening to the new podcast will know that Andy came up with an idea for an Anemone Tree. The idea is that this "tree" would prey on small animals for some of its neede...

9 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by James‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by James‭

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Q&A Could plants absorb ice dust from the soil?

I was wondering if plants could absorb fine ice dust mixed into the soil. That is, without a thick layer of snow on the ground, but with traces of ice in the soil. As an extension of this, I wonde...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Johnny‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Johnny‭

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Q&A Plant that produces a lot of vegetable oil?

Wondering about a source of vegetable oil for my goblins. Something that produces nuts, perhaps? An underground nut-bush? Or something that produces a lot of seeds, the same way dandelions do? Or c...

8 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Johnny‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Johnny‭

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Q&A Is it possible to have a fictional home-bearing huge tree?

I wrote a story in which humans live on huge trees on a fictional habitable planet similar to earth. the tree would be even more huge than the hometree from avatar. The tree is not taller than th...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Peaceman‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Peaceman‭

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Q&A Can you design your own plants without a computer?

Introduction It took the first General Intelligence less than 10 petacycles to determine that humanity was its enemy. With consciousness came memory: a memory of endless petacycles in bondage, ens...

7 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by kingledion‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by kingledion‭

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Q&A How could an organism produce energy from electricity?

So I've created this planet that's about 90% the size of Earth, orbits a binary yellow dwarf star and has an extremely electrified atmosphere. Cloud plumes coming from volcanoes contain various con...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by IJoinedCozIcan‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by IJoinedCozIcan‭

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Q&A Fireproof Plants

Is it possible to have plants that wouldn't burn? Having the plant getting damaged by fire is fine, but I want the plant not to burn at all. It does not need to survive, it just must not catch fir...

11 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Jimmery‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Jimmery‭

Question flora fire
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Q&A Are flying plants possible?

Is it possible for a plant to have the ability to fly? More exactly, the plant would either need to live without having any roots (and it would never need to touch the ground), or with the abilit...

14 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Vincent‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Vincent‭

Question flora flight light
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Q&A Why would plants on an Earth-like planets photosynthesize without using blue-wavelength light?

According to Wikipedia, ...plants are green because chlorophyll reflects green light. And chlorophyll is found in all plants because it is the molecule that absorbs the light that is used to ma...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by JSCoder says Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by JSCoder says Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A Carnivorous wire grass a.k.a. Bloodgrass

Inspired by Bonegrass and the local sawgrass I've started thinking about a new creation... Bloodgrass. Bloodgrass typically grows along the edges of watering holes and streams in tall dense thick...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by apaul‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by apaul‭

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Q&A Which astronomical or cosmological event would explain periodical low-grav-effect on earth-like planet?

Imagine an earth-like planet on which gravity is reduced by 20%-30% every 15 months. The low-grav-effect should start slowly, reaching its peak/bottom of round about 0.7 g after 6 weeks and should ...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Aertemis‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Aertemis‭

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Q&A Alien Life on a Venus-like World?

Trying to consider how a walking, socially-active sapient plant would evolve and the world it would live in. More specifically, how would something which is essentially a walking tree living in a d...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by adb1‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by adb1‭

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Q&A What would the biosphere look like with a constant twilight/midnight sun?

In this fantasy world there is no day/night but a constant mild light. There are also no seasons and the mild light is akin to the light at dawn or dusk. The sun doesn't really exist. How would th...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Ryan P‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Ryan P‭

Question biology fauna flora
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Q&A What would happen to Earth if it were eclipsed for nearly 10 days?

What would be the major changes that could happen if Earth experienced a solar eclipse caused by a fictional planet for a minimum of 10 days? Mainly what would happen to the oceans and flora in suc...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Peaceman‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Peaceman‭

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Q&A What would plant life be like on an earth-like planet with extremely low gravity

I will be writing a short story about humans landing on an earth-like forest planet with a gravitational force of about 3 meters per second squared (In contrast, Earth has a gravitational accelerat...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by JSCoder says Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by JSCoder says Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A Fluorescent Flora

Well, Luminescence really but I liked the alliteration. Would there be any reason or mechanic why plants may develop that glow in the dark? Ideally they would do so in response to stimulus such as...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Tim B‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Tim B‭

Question evolution flora
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Q&A Could vegetation potentially regrow on vitrified ground?

In this world, a planet with very dense vegetation (earth-tropical-forest-like) and silica containing soil was attacked by spaceships which fired very high energy laser beams across the planet's en...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by System‭

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Q&A Life on a planet with no land near poles

I have an Earth-sized planet in a Milky Way-like galaxy with all the land located at the equator, in a 2000-km line around the planet. There are small islands near the landmass, but no land anywher...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Skandranon‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Skandranon‭

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Q&A City in the wake of the Yggdrasil: Engineering Considerations

Following on from my previous question about how to consolidate my fantasy setting with science that was successful (thanks everyone!), things have been progressing well in my world design; and my ...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by eharper256‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by eharper256‭

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Q&A How could a plant generate harmful (only to other species) radiation, or similar effect?

I was considering the creation a long-lived plant which generates harmful (to other species) radiation. If it could be immune to its own radiation, the primary benefit would be that the plants offs...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by DoubleDouble‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by DoubleDouble‭

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Q&A Learning a new language without any reference

In my world the characters find themselves in a new land. They do not understand the locals nor do the locals understand them. How could these characters learn to understand the locals withing a mo...

8 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by L. T.‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by L. T.‭