I see a couple of problems with this argument right away... First, the plant is not impervious to predation. The plant in the video has holes in the leaves, so obviously it's not beyond being eaten. Second, it bears edible fruit, which (according to the video) is even tasty. An edible fruit is a plant's way of bribing an animal to transport its seeds. That's definitely a "design flaw", if the intent behind the "design" is to prevent any part of the plant from being eaten.
Good points. The fruit scenario is bizarre at a minimum. The fruit has thousands of fine spikes. If you would try to eat the fruit it would drive you up the wall. I would guess if the fruit was overripe it would fall off and the spines would probably start being less effective. It is definitely a strange design. Most nightshades are berry like (tomato, tree tomato etc ) bot spiny. As for the holes in the leaves the spines are spread out every few inches. I would presume the large soft leaves are selectively feasted upon !
@aarondelagarza8446 They probably have the ability to eat around the thorns! These little oranges have endless little spines I couldn’t imagine a tongue surviving this fruit. I will admit animals are very clever. We don’t even have birds picking at the ripe fruit! We have so many creatures eating our other fruits. Nightshades are not loved by animals except for humans.
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I see a couple of problems with this argument right away... First, the plant is not impervious to predation. The plant in the video has holes in the leaves, so obviously it's not beyond being eaten. Second, it bears edible fruit, which (according to the video) is even tasty. An edible fruit is a plant's way of bribing an animal to transport its seeds. That's definitely a "design flaw", if the intent behind the "design" is to prevent any part of the plant from being eaten.
Good points. The fruit scenario is bizarre at a minimum. The fruit has thousands of fine spikes. If you would try to eat the fruit it would drive you up the wall. I would guess if the fruit was overripe it would fall off and the spines would probably start being less effective. It is definitely a strange design. Most nightshades are berry like (tomato, tree tomato etc ) bot spiny.
As for the holes in the leaves the spines are spread out every few inches. I would presume the large soft leaves are selectively feasted upon !
Not true here in South Texas cows javelinas and deer eat prickly pear what's 1 inch thorns no problem
@aarondelagarza8446 They probably have the ability to eat around the thorns! These little oranges have endless little spines I couldn’t imagine a tongue surviving this fruit. I will admit animals are very clever. We don’t even have birds picking at the ripe fruit! We have so many creatures eating our other fruits.
Nightshades are not loved by animals except for humans.
Would be great to see that process of them eating a prickly pear in real-time!
@@Buildingenjoyment just Google whitetail deer eating prickly pear cactus
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Evolutionist?
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These are similar to tomato and not to orange.
100 % nightshade. They’re only look like oranges. That is why the locals call them naranjilla.
Taste more like a tomato than an orange.
@Buildingenjoyment that's what I said, it's nothing like orange.
@@pulanggrymurasing4906 it is called little orange here in Ecuador. That is the only reference to an orange !
@@Buildingenjoyment ok