Josh Clark

or maybe rural legend, that they can travel up to 100 kilometers, 62 miles.

And that does not seem to be the case, even though you'll see that stat absolutely everywhere, including some legitimate places.

But Kyle helped us with this, our British buddy.

And he found that a 2003 study, which is the most recent you can find,

On this is that just one in 7,000 Papuses travels more than one kilometer.

So just leave 100 kilometers out of the whole equation.

Yeah.

And Kyle told us that because he's from England.

But for our North American listeners, we're talking 320 something feet if it's 100 kilometers and about three and a half feet for a meter.

Yeah, and apparently 99.5% of all pappuses land just within 30 feet of the parent plant, which is also 10 meters.

So, yes, if you ever hear that a pappus can travel 100 kilometers, you can be like, that's wrong.

What you just said is wrong.

I think like one did, and they framed that.

Maybe that's the one you have in amber.

Yeah.

It's like that first dollar bill you make as a business.

You put it into amber.

There's also a cool adaptation where after they flower, that little hollow stalk that the flower sits upon goes limp on the ground and is just sort of hiding there away from birds and stuff.

And when they ripen up, they jump back up again and they're like, here we are.

That's pretty cool.