Plants’ Two Paths to Immortality

Plants have officially figured out the cheat code to immortality. While humans are stuck with one life,

a plant can literally clone itself forever. It is called vegetative reproduction, where they just

grow a whole new body from a single piece of root or stem. But they do not

stop there because they also play the long game with actual sex. They use wind and

bugs to swap DNA and create totally unique offspring. Whether they are ancient moss using

spores or flowers using pollen, plants are constantly choosing between living forever as

a clone or reinventing themselves to survive anything.