saw this on twitter – i’m just curious why it is doing that

by prince_cookie

12 Comments

  1. Boj_mir96

    The classic sibling taunt of “Im not touching you” 😂

  2. katielynne53725

    Clearly they’re siblings, and their mom is already tired and overstimulated.

  3. Reversepasturization

    That’s a very “thorny” cactus…

  4. InevitabilityEngine

    So plants have this amazing adaptation called phototropism. When they get sufficient sunlight the plant hormones called auxins are regulated and the plant grows at a normal rate because things are going well.

    What’s super crazy is that when you put a cactus next to another plant that competes with their access to sunlight, these auxins will go into overdrive and the cactus will grow a whole ass limb to knock that little fucker right off the table because bitch, that’s my sunlight!

    Ok so the second paragraph was made up. But auxins really do cause a plant to grow in wacky direction to “find sufficient sunlight” when there isn’t enough.

    Edit: typos

  5. Objective_Party9405

    Cactus on the right has heard about barnacles and decided to try it for themselves.

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