A Plant Nerd is basically someone who is so obsessed and knowledgable about plants that they can get excited and blabber about them for hours, much to the dismay of others nearby. Plant nerds like to call plants by their scientific name and say words like glabrous and pubescent; words usually used to describe leaves and plant morphology. A plant nerd will probably have very strong feelings about a plant, and actually get angry if one they dont like is planted (for an example see my nodes on eucalyptus or heavenly bamboo. Plant nerds are a relatively rare type of nerd and also different than most nerds in that they are usually outside. They can be seen getting really excited about a little weed, or walking around with samples of dead plants. As you may have guessed, i am a bit of a plant nerd; another example of a plant nerd is ifurita...

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