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The flowers of the Crotalaria cunninghamii plant resemble tiny hummingbirds (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by sjmarf to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

This is wild

[–] SuzyQ 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How does the plant know what hummingbirds looks like?

[–] naught 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't! It evolved this way through natural selection over eons

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's the benefit here? attracts more hummings to polinate? Or keeps worms away?

[–] naught 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No idea! It's important not to ascribe purpose or intent to beneficial but random mutations. It must do something. Like you're saying, more pollinators or scare away pests etc. Somehow it is evolutionarily beneficial for reproducing with the additional benefit of being sick af

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or just random coincidence out of millions of different plants and it didn't do anything to harm the plant from spreading.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

that's evolution baby