I saw a plants root crack an asphalt road. Plants roots are crazy strong. What is the craziest damage you ever saw plants cause? Pipes? Cables? ? ?

  • Che Banana@beehaw.org
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    13 days ago

    Not yet but soon…an urban farmer friend of mine planted Sequoias below the power lines running through her property, once they reach the lines she’ll have the company move the lines because they’re protected.

    Not quite what you’re looking for but I needed to share it.

    • aarch64@programming.dev
      2·
      12 days ago

      Interesting strategy… my city forbids planting trees below power lines. Don’t think she’ll get nailed for breaking some sort of rule like that?

      • Jolteon@lemmy.zip
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        6 hours ago

        It’s definitely illegal there, too. Intentionally damaging public infrastructure is illegal in literally every country that has public infrastructure.

        That said, I’m not sure how the laws would interact with the incredibly long timescale of the intentional damage in this case.