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[paleojen]

Winning the award for Sentence that Most Needs Background, from last Tuesday's Plant Physiology lecture:

"In 1814, B. Heyne discovered a diurnal change in acidity by tasting Bryophyllum leaves."

(Bryophyllum is not a food plant, vaguely resembles a jade plant, and I would hesitate to classify it as edible.)

Comments

[jonsonite]

Sounds like the guy was dedicated. "Ugh...just another 1,000 jade plant leaves to eat before I can be statistically significant..."

...munch/cringe...

"999"