It was titled, “Vision in Plants via Plant-Specific Ocelli?” That innocent question mark did nothing to soften the implications. Ocelli is a science term for simple eyes, and Baluška and Mancuso were asking if plants might have them. It included a mention of boquila, which was discovered by Gianoli two years prior to be able to mimic the shape and feel of the leaves of other plants, right down to their color, vein pattern, and texture. Recent research suggests that an ancient cyanobacteria, an early ancestor of plants, had (and still have) the smallest and oldest example of a camera-like eye.
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