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It's not enough to touch grass (feddit.de)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Grass is a type of plant. Bamboo is a grass, you wouldn't say it's native to the US or to Europe

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But grass IS native! That's the point. Be it bamboo or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Okay but it's a pointless sentence that means very little.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not how it works. Grass isn't just one thing. It's a general term for a lot of different plants that may or may not be native.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Do you understand the English language?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, bamboo would not be native to Europe. That's like saying "There are rats in Europe. Therefore rodents are native to Europe. Therefore Capybaras are native to Europe".

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

Do you understand the English language?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm getting the feeling that you dont.

Almost everywhere on earth has a species of grass that is native to it.

The species of grass typically used for North American lawns, isnt native to North America.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, go back to school.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure. You first.

"Poa pratensis commonly known as Kentucky bluegrass (...) [is a] species of grass native to practically all of Europe, North Asia and the mountains of Algeria and Morocco. It is a common and incredibly popular lawn grass in North America (...) despite the fact that it is not native to North America. (...)When found on native grasslands in Canada, for example, it is considered an unwelcome exotic plant, and is indicative of a disturbed and degraded landscape."

Edit: See also - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8074375/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Capybaras aren't?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes that's my point. And bamboo isn't native to Europe either.

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

Actually some bamboo is native to the Americas.

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

Is cane actually bamboo? I thought it was more like sugar

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, TIL. I stand corrected, I guess.

I suppose I assumed cane and sugar cane were more closely related and I already knew sugar cane wasn't bamboo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I only learned about US bamboo last year.