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There is a plant that mimics the shapes of other leaves - even if the leaves are made out of plastic. Pretty fascinating, the same photoreceptors suspected to enable this have been found in other plants, but the others don't use it to engage in mimicry.

Weeds adapting to look like non-weeds is highly plausible, IMO.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8903786/#:~:tex....




> Weeds adapting to look like non-weeds is highly plausible, IMO.

It's not highly plausible. It would take a lot of generations and a lot of mutations for this to happen.


Boquila trifoliolata can do it within a single generation. Most weeds don't have this capability currently, but a strong selective pressure could make it happen pretty quick with the right lucky mutations.


No strong selective pressure could not make it happen "pretty quick" it's very complicated behavior that would take a very long time to appear




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