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Re:Rare plants that ‘bleed’ nickel by dx87 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:42PM (#24298409)
That's pretty interesting. I remember in the orignal Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie they found sunflowers growing over a toxic spill, but I always thought it was just to show that the spilled chemicals made things grow extra large, but it turns out it was just a lazy attempt at a cleanup.
Re:Rare plants that ‘bleed’ nickel by gshixman on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:56PM (#24298574)
Strangely enough, many years ago I read the following webcomic about something similar:

http://www.rhjunior.com/tales-of-the-questor-0587/

The story was about a racoon farmer trying to leech bauxite from the soil and created a plant to do it.