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What Would it take for Trees with Stone Core to be Self Supporting?
So I have an idea for a biome in which avian humanoids are the dominant intelligent lifeform. They live inside of trees that dwarf the redwoods of our world. The trees grow so tall and so thick (akin ...
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Growing crops on a planet orbiting red dwarf
I trying to describe colonization of an Earth Like planet orbiting a red dwarf in its habitable zone.
It is NOT tidally locked with the star
Similar to Earth though somewhat larger
Magnetic field is ...
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What star would cause a planet to have white plants?
Okay, I'm trying to make a planet that has at least part of its surface, or at least part of its underground, habitable for humans (breathable atmosphere at a suitable pressure, a suitable level of ...
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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 where ...
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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 oxygen ...
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Which kinds of food would no longer be available if plants stopped producing pollen?
In my fantasy pre-industrial world pollen production and plant reproduction has been disabled by some sort of curse.
The curse has a limited geographical span, but the region affected is very large ...
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What Would the Third Kind of Angiosperm Look Like?
To put this title into context, there are actually two basic kinds of angiosperms on Earth, showing here:
These differences in characteristics serve their own adaptations to survive and thrive.
Now ...
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Alternative to Magnesium's Role in Photosynthesis
It is a known fact that magnesium is a very important part of photosynthesis and chlorophyll. I have looked everywhere to try to find out this question but I have never really gotten a solid answer.
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Could Gymnosperms Develop Fruits and Flowers Like Angiosperms?
Here is the scenario: A Paleo/Mesozoic mass extinction wiped out 96% of all terrestrial species, and the only plants that survived were as follows:
One genus of conifer
One genus of cycad
One genus ...
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What animals live in mushroom forests?
A followup to this question.
In my world, mushroom producing fungi have developed a symbiotic relationship with algae (or cyanobacteria) similar to Prototaxites.
These fungi exist alongside all the ...
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How tall can trees get if water transport limitations are bypassed?
The setting is Earth, millions of years in our future. In this setting a species of tree has made an evolutionary leap, allowing it to bypass the water transport constraints currently thought to be ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Are Extraterrestrial's pagoda trees plausible?
In the National Geographic mini-series Extraterrestrial or Alien Worlds, they featured a hypothetical gas giant moon called the Blue Moon. The Blue Moon orbits a binary star, has a very dense ...
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Alternative methods of blood circulation?
So, I've got a parasite, which adapts and grows to keep its (human) host alive. One of the hosts in question has lost their heart, and since the parasite itself, taking the form of vine-like ...
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