CAM photosynthesis is a clever adaptation some plants have where they turn light into sugar during the day, and only breathe in CO2 at night. This lets the plant close up its leaves so they don’t lose water during the heat of the day.
CAM plants use sunlight to turn malic acid into sugar, and every night they breathe in plenty of carbon dioxide, storing it as a fresh supply of malic acid. If you have keen senses, you may be able to taste the difference between a CAM plant harvested during the day and one harvested at night because of this variation in sugar and acid content.
Having evolved several times independantly, you see CAM in lots of different kinds of plants: air plants and bromeliads, which have poorly developed root systems; cacti and other succulents, which grow in hot dry environments; you even see it in some aquatic plants. For these, CAM serves not to conserve water, but carbon dioxide - which is of course hard to come by when you don’t have any air.
The “crassulacean” part of the name “crassulacean acid metabolism” is there because this phenomenon was first discovered in crassulas. Jade plants are an example of this genus.
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Anyone have tips on buying a bra? How do I measure this stuff?
https://www.abrathatfits.org/calculator.php is the classic recommendation for figuring it out. I just ordered a few based on the size I gave me, will report back on how it works out
Oh I’ll try it, ty.
I find this always gives me a band or a cup size too small. Also, every single bra and bra manufacturer is sized differently so the easiest thing to do is to get a stack of two dozen somewhere and try them on and see what’s comfortable and what’s not.
If you live somewhere you can get professionally fitted, go for it. Can’t recommend it enough.
Interestingly in the calculation they subtract a cup size for AMAB folks
There’s a logic to it but (we tend to have wider-set breast roots, iirc) but for me personally I’ve always found the AFAB setting gives me more accurate results.
Yeah I’m feeling pretty wide set rn. I guess I’ll see when my order shows up
I usually just get a sports bra. Those are relatively flexible. Although I don’t think this a super good way of going about things as sports bras can also have fitting problems.
You can use them as like, emergency or trainer bras
That’s still what I’m doing and people don’t seem to notice they’re seeing a bra instead of an undershirt? But mostly just go that route because I still don’t wanna try them on in-person >.<
I want cute lingerie, but for day to day use it seems ok. I was going to buy some but they were super expensive at the store I was at, and I didn’t have a chance to look it up