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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 6757897" data-attributes="member: 6803643">Most Plants don't eat from the soil any more than we eat from the sun. They're getting particular vitamins and nutrients from the soil, but their rooted nature is less essential than their ability to photosynthesize – that's where they get their energy from. Yes, I'm oversimplifying; we don't just eat grains to get sugars, we eat foods rich in proteins and whatnot. But there are examples of plants that find those other nutrients in various other ways: "carnivorous" plants digest insects for the sake of synthesizing nitrogen in N-poor swampland soils; most trees trade carbon to fungi and bacteria in exchange for Magnesium and Phosporous in Mg-poor and P-poor soils respectively. These could be emulated via economic systems if plants became mobile.There ARE examples of mobile plants. In fact, many functions of plant life are about breaking through the relative rootedness of plants to access new areas with less competition. Plants grow for that very reason, and they distribute their pollen and seeds via wind or vector species for the same reasons (to "steal" their mobility). Fungi do some similar things, despite their vast differences. Imagine a Fungal race that looks a bit like Paras and Parasect from Pokémon – the fungus is in charge, but the insect gives the fungus mobility. This is a similar idea that's been posed with the Vegepygmy, despite my big issues with that monster for reasons of their diet restrictions.</blockquote>

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