pre-historic orange

 

A seed that has evolved through traveling....

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How were plants before the last mass extinction? How did they evolve?

Or are they so entwined in their business of circularity,

switching between photosynthesis and breathing with the sunlight switches, adjusting flowering times to the climate changes, until the changes are so hard to cope with that they disappear here, to continue where the sun is still shining and the ice didn’t reach; growing, associating with other trees and fungus, hiding their seeds underground or in the wind.

Are they so into their circularity, that they don’t even need to evolve?

Do we even have any way of knowing if plants have evolved? Are there fossil trees before trees, pre-trees that left their mark on the minerals before dissolving into the gigantic sheet of dead life that runs under the earth’s surface, these days going by the name of petrol? Evolution through composting.

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and genetic selection after genetic selection became the orange in front of me that is most capable of avoiding damage in the harsh climacteric conditions of sea and road containers and supermarket shelves.

Yes, it is tasteless, but it is a species that knows how to adapt.

Its seeds will go with its skin to end most probably as compost in a local park or will end up in the general waste bin. From there they will be burned into the atmosphere to produce electricity before it has even turned into the fossil treacle now known as oil. Their evolution days are gone.

All but one. One is going to fly into a pot inside this house where it is going to enter another cyclical path to evolution.