fruit-body is the plant's genitals

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An historical example of an analogy used to explain science:

"The FRUIT-BODY consists of the genitals of plants;

• thus the FLOWERING is the generation,
• the ripening of the FRUIT is the birth…
• Therefore the CALYX is the bedroom,
• the COROLLA is the curtain,
• the FILAMENTS are the spermatic vessels,
• the ANTHERS are the testicles,
• the POLLEN is the sperm,
• the STIGMA is the vulva,
• the STYLE is the vagina,
• the [VEGETABLE] OVARY is the [animal] ovary,
• the PERICARP is the fertilised ovary,
• and the SEED is the egg.
• The calyx could also be regarded as the lips of the c*nt or the foreskin…

Carl Linnæus

Carl Linnæus (1751), Philosophia Botanica (translated by Stephen Freer)

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