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Anne Thomas's avatar

Love this! I’m also an advocate for seeing plants

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Darren Sears's avatar

Great to see this given a name! :-) I've always been obsessed with plants but had basically no interest in animals, and have wondered what could explain it. Some of it could be that a big part of the interest is plant distributions, and unlike animals they're tethered to a place. (And the one aspect of animals that I do get into is biogeography, on a large scale.)

One thing that's confounded me in particular (being a palm fanatic) is that so many people seem to think all palms are the same species. They clearly notice them in general (they're essential to creating that tropical feel, after all) but can't make any distinctions. They all must have coconuts, right?

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