Met a guy at the Denver Botanic Gardens who only collects plants with square stems.

kai4457mo ago

My aunt had a thing for weirdly shaped vegetables. Her pantry was full of carrots that looked like people.

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daniel1407mo ago

Actually called quadrangular stems lol

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cora5187mo ago

Oh right, that's the proper name for it. I was reading about herb gardening last week and it came up because a lot of mint family plants have them. It's one of those things you see all the time but never know there's a specific term for it. Makes sense when you think about it, square stems. Kind of cool how common plants have these little details.

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betty_kelly96mo ago

Had me in the first half thinking this was gonna be some weird pickup line but @daniel140 is right, it's a real thing with mint plants. Never really noticed it before but now I'm gonna be checking every stem I see.

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