Where the hell did cactus come from?

Researchers have noticed that there are no cactus or desert plants in the fossil record.

Present desert plants (like the cactus varieties) are a sudden appearing mystery, “…not one single desert plant has left its fossil traceries in places where it can be found today,” - Ivar Zapp.

Be careful, the evolution cultists are even more violent than Muslims when their religion is questioned

idk about you guys but my cactus came from a garden center

>>40715910 (OP)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2437414

>>40715910 (OP)
All plants evolved from moss, all flesh evolved from slime. Slime grew claws and teeth and horns to kill and to defend. Moss grew spikes and thorns and hooks to kill and to defend. Both was paid with pain.

interested. i have also recently pondered the cacti.
one general note, i have NEVER Met a truly irredeemable spiny plant. all the spiky plants that i know of, save for those somewhat unpleasant... (looks them up) "siberian pea shrub", but they're not absolutely horrid, i just kinda don't like them.
but raspberry, blackberry, roses, cacti - they bear nice fruit and are good other than it being unpleasant to touch them.
cacti are kind of jerks though, hard to say what kind of energy they emit.

but a few times recently i've gotten to know the hidden inner personhood of certain plants. diamond willows can be a little pranky sometimes. lilacs can be real generous.

>>40715910 (OP)
Depositional environments that preserve remains long enough to fossilize are pretty rare. Think stagnent bogs with no oxygen, shallow seabeds or rivers with relatively fast deposition to bury the materials.

With that in mind if you look at the environment cactuses thrive in it seems very unlikely that we would find one that could make it to the bottom of a bog or seabed without being eaten or decomposed. If something does make it to fossilhood there is no guarentee of its discovery, if the rock where that fossil is was uplifted to the surface like a mountain range, erosion will eventually erase that fossil completely. The sheer volume of geologic data we have is staggering, but the amount of information lost to erosion pales in comparison.

>>40716540
This.

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>>40715910 (OP)
>Researchers have noticed that there are no cactus or desert plants in the fossil record.

That’s because most animals get preserved in sediment from some kind of water source, which would be rare in a desert.

>>40715910 (OP)
My mom hated cacti so much she had destroy my tiny innocent cactus by putting her fat ass on it and having me pull the needles out

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>>40715956
You can’t say that sir

>>40715910 (OP)
I fell into a pit of them when I was a baby. Maybe they existed solely to hurt me. Either way, I'm done with that. In actuality, nothing exists, so yeah. Cacti.

>>40716426
>cacti yuk
This anon's never had prickly pear mead. Sad.

>>40729790
or this, good shit

>>40716191
Schizo

>>40732031
Being called a schizo on /x/ is a hallmark of pride and this anon is close to the truth but forgot to mention humanities roles in general

>>40732061
>humanities roles in general
One group of humans seeks to familiarize themselves with their environment and the other are outside because of behavior or disease. Those who went outside are never believed to be true

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>>40716426
>cacti are kind of jerks though, hard to say what kind of energy they emit.
There's someone in the void that wishes to have a word with you.

>>40716191
>All plants evolved from moss, all flesh evolved from slime. Slime grew claws and teeth and horns to kill and to defend. Moss grew spikes and thorns and hooks to kill and to defend. Both was paid with pain
uh, based?

>>40716426
cacti are cold, hard chillers
>>40737828
this