A young child with long blonde hair is gleefully tromping through a field of bright flowers. Text overlay reads: “FUCK YOU, FLOWERS how does it feel to get kicked right in the face?

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    A shitpost but deserves some nerdy clarification. Flowers pollinated by animals(bees, ants, moths, bats, etc) are almost never the source of hay fever type allergies. These include almost every flower you can think of including the tulips seen here. The reason is that pollen of these plants needs to cling to their pollinators to be transported and thus have not evolutionarily selected for being moved by wind currents.

    The ones that are wind-pollinated produce the respiratory allegic reactions. These are oaks, gingko, willows, pines, cedars, most grasses (rice, corn, wheat, barley, rye, bamboo), hops, ragweed (not goldenrod as is often conflated) etc.

    The exception are moulds, but they are not pollen-producing nor even flowering plants at all. They produce spores. If you want to have a mind fuck look up the reproduction cycle of ferns, moulds, etc.