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Overcrowded bulbs etc
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I was wondering why overcrowded plants don't produce flowers. I don't understand what benefit this could have in nature. why would they stop reproduction?
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Yeah, you would have thought the opposite. If crowded, start producing seed and that seed gets taken elsewhere by birds or wind to populate a remote site.
what the ...?
That's what I thought,Cloggie.
Animals (including humans) stop breeding in overcrowded conditions as well. Too much competition for resources, little chance of success for the sprogs/sprigs and it takes quite a lot of food to produce viable offspring. Probably a mechanism to reduce the risk of weak and malformed plants weakening the gene pool.
Just a theory. I have absolutely no idea really
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
On the other hand animals, including humans, (in some places) have a larger number of offspring in adverse conditions in the hope that at least some will survive. MmmMMMmmmm.....
I've no idea either.
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