Did you know? Sunflowers are used to assist in clean up after a nuclear disaster. They are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima in the attempt to aid in soil restoration.
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July 22, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Did you know? Sunflowers are used to assist in clean up after a nuclear disaster. They are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima in the attempt to aid in soil restoration.
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More #Phyllanthaceae strangeness! Many species of Phyllanthus are hyperaccumulators of nickel (meaning they store Ni in their tissues at concentrations very much greater than those of the surrounding soils).
In that case, let me share with you my own photos of two Phyllanthus from Borneo that are nickel hyperaccumulators: a branch of Phyllanthus balgooyi (with a detail of its fruits), and a flowering branch of Phyllanthus rufuschaneyi with male flowers (pedunculate) and female flowers (sessile).
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
More #Phyllanthaceae strangeness! Many species of Phyllanthus are hyperaccumulators of nickel (meaning they store Ni in their tissues at concentrations very much greater than those of the surrounding soils).
Did you know? Sunflowers are used to assist in cleaning up after a nuclear disaster. They are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima. [🎞️ thebrainmaze]
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June 26, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Did you know? Sunflowers are used to assist in cleaning up after a nuclear disaster. They are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima. [🎞️ thebrainmaze]
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Just laying here, still thinking about planting mangroves and various other hyperaccumulators, underwater ag domes and such...
Just laying here thinking about planting mangroves and installing underwater ag-domes and living a life of underwater farming...
June 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Just laying here, still thinking about planting mangroves and various other hyperaccumulators, underwater ag domes and such...
Did you know?
Sunflowers are used to assist in clean up after a nuclear disaster.
They are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima in the attempt to aid in soil restoration.
Sunflowers are used to assist in clean up after a nuclear disaster.
They are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima in the attempt to aid in soil restoration.
February 8, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Did you know?
Sunflowers are used to assist in clean up after a nuclear disaster.
They are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima in the attempt to aid in soil restoration.
Sunflowers are used to assist in clean up after a nuclear disaster.
They are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima in the attempt to aid in soil restoration.
Hyperaccumulators are a group of plants that evolved to safely absorb high amounts of metals, and they can suck metals like nickel from the earth.
How Metal-Absorbing Plants Could Make Mining Greener
Plants called “hyperaccumulators” have evolved to absorb high levels of metals. Scientists want to harness them for greener metal mining.
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November 5, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Hyperaccumulators are a group of plants that evolved to safely absorb high amounts of metals, and they can suck metals like nickel from the earth.
Plants called “hyperaccumulators” have evolved to absorb high levels of metals.
Dr. David McNear joins us to talk about these fascinating flora and their promise as a greener alternative to metal mining.
Dr. David McNear joins us to talk about these fascinating flora and their promise as a greener alternative to metal mining.
How Metal-Absorbing Plants Could Make Mining Greener
Plants called “hyperaccumulators” have evolved to absorb high levels of metals. Scientists want to harness them for greener metal mining.
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June 7, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Plants called “hyperaccumulators” have evolved to absorb high levels of metals.
Dr. David McNear joins us to talk about these fascinating flora and their promise as a greener alternative to metal mining.
Dr. David McNear joins us to talk about these fascinating flora and their promise as a greener alternative to metal mining.
Ni and Zn distribution in inflorescence of two Brassicaceae hyperaccumulators by microXRF analysis. Interesting to explore impact of the hyper accumulation in different floral organs on plant fertility.
#plantscience #metals
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#plantscience #metals
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Elemental localization in inflorescences of the hyperaccumulators Noccaea praecox and Noccaea caerulescens (Brassicaceae)
Synchrotron-based micro-X-ray fluorescence (μXRF) elemental images of the inflorescences of the nickel hyperaccumulator Noccaea praecox.
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May 3, 2024 at 8:01 AM
Ni and Zn distribution in inflorescence of two Brassicaceae hyperaccumulators by microXRF analysis. Interesting to explore impact of the hyper accumulation in different floral organs on plant fertility.
#plantscience #metals
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#plantscience #metals
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The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy announced up to $10 million in funding for phytomining research.
Phytomining is the ability of some plants to suck metals like nickel from the earth is called.
Phytomining is the ability of some plants to suck metals like nickel from the earth is called.
How Metal-Absorbing Plants Could Make Mining Greener
Plants called “hyperaccumulators” have evolved to absorb high levels of metals. Scientists want to harness them for greener metal mining.
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December 4, 2024 at 2:17 PM
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy announced up to $10 million in funding for phytomining research.
Phytomining is the ability of some plants to suck metals like nickel from the earth is called.
Phytomining is the ability of some plants to suck metals like nickel from the earth is called.
Nickel bio-accumulator research smi.uq.edu.au/project/path... So cool.
November 30, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Nickel bio-accumulator research smi.uq.edu.au/project/path... So cool.
Some hopeful sci-fi science. There is a class of plants called hyperaccumulators, which can absorb heavy metals from soils and store them in their biomass. Planting and harvesting them for the metals (phytomining) may be an interesting soil reclamation strategy. 🧪
Link: www.mdpi.com/2571-8789/8/...
Link: www.mdpi.com/2571-8789/8/...
July 29, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Some hopeful sci-fi science. There is a class of plants called hyperaccumulators, which can absorb heavy metals from soils and store them in their biomass. Planting and harvesting them for the metals (phytomining) may be an interesting soil reclamation strategy. 🧪
Link: www.mdpi.com/2571-8789/8/...
Link: www.mdpi.com/2571-8789/8/...
Perhaps the strangest hyperaccumulators are those that sequester Rare Earth Elements (Y, La, Ce, et al.) Blechnum orientale (📷: Leon Perrie CC BY 4) in Indonesia has been found to take up REEs up to 3000 μg/g. Crazy! doi.org/10.1007/s111... #Aspleniaceae #heavymetal #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
July 27, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Perhaps the strangest hyperaccumulators are those that sequester Rare Earth Elements (Y, La, Ce, et al.) Blechnum orientale (📷: Leon Perrie CC BY 4) in Indonesia has been found to take up REEs up to 3000 μg/g. Crazy! doi.org/10.1007/s111... #Aspleniaceae #heavymetal #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
Former coal plants may need the land to be detoxified first, and bioremediation can speed that up too. Some plants are hyperaccumulators, efficiently removing toxic chemicals from soil. Oyster mushrooms can fully digest hydrocarbons, rendering them non-toxic.
May 18, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Former coal plants may need the land to be detoxified first, and bioremediation can speed that up too. Some plants are hyperaccumulators, efficiently removing toxic chemicals from soil. Oyster mushrooms can fully digest hydrocarbons, rendering them non-toxic.
Could we use plants to mine metals from the earth?
How Metal-Absorbing Plants Could Make Mining Greener
Plants called “hyperaccumulators” have evolved to absorb high levels of metals. Scientists want to harness them for greener metal mining.
www.sciencefriday.com
October 2, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Could we use plants to mine metals from the earth?
ah you have touched on a special interest of mine!
These kinds of plants are called hyperaccumulators and the process of uptaking (usually heavy metals) is bioremediation
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
These kinds of plants are called hyperaccumulators and the process of uptaking (usually heavy metals) is bioremediation
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
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January 22, 2025 at 5:10 AM
ah you have touched on a special interest of mine!
These kinds of plants are called hyperaccumulators and the process of uptaking (usually heavy metals) is bioremediation
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
These kinds of plants are called hyperaccumulators and the process of uptaking (usually heavy metals) is bioremediation
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
Plants deal with heavy metals (incl. copper, zinc, cobalt, etc.) in soils by avoiding them, excluding them, or hyperaccumulating them (>1000 μg/g). Hyperaccumulators occur in many habitats, but those on ultramafic rock, like this area in Moa, Cuba, are esp. rich. #heavymetal #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
July 22, 2024 at 11:17 AM
Plants deal with heavy metals (incl. copper, zinc, cobalt, etc.) in soils by avoiding them, excluding them, or hyperaccumulating them (>1000 μg/g). Hyperaccumulators occur in many habitats, but those on ultramafic rock, like this area in Moa, Cuba, are esp. rich. #heavymetal #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
If you do want to do something like this you might want to grow sunflowers first before growing something to eat. Hyperaccumulators like sunflowers can extract toxic elements like lead, mercury and arsenic from the soil cleaning up the environment. youtu.be/OOS2RDN9QZg
Hyperaccumulators and phytoremediation, using plants like sunflowers to clean up the environment.
YouTube video by m j murcott
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June 22, 2026 at 8:01 PM
If you do want to do something like this you might want to grow sunflowers first before growing something to eat. Hyperaccumulators like sunflowers can extract toxic elements like lead, mercury and arsenic from the soil cleaning up the environment. youtu.be/OOS2RDN9QZg
New Caledonia is a hotspot for hyperaccumulators, as the island is rich in nickel ores (& mining is a threat to many of the island’s unique plants). Psychotria gabrieliae (#Rubiaceae) is a nickel hyperaccumulator. #nickel #heavymetal #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
July 26, 2024 at 11:11 AM
New Caledonia is a hotspot for hyperaccumulators, as the island is rich in nickel ores (& mining is a threat to many of the island’s unique plants). Psychotria gabrieliae (#Rubiaceae) is a nickel hyperaccumulator. #nickel #heavymetal #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
Sunflowers are known as hyperaccumulators, meaning they can absorb high concentrations of specific pollutants from the soil through their roots. Thanks sunflowers!
#science #sciencefacts #sunflowers #hyperaccumulators
#science #sciencefacts #sunflowers #hyperaccumulators
February 25, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Sunflowers are known as hyperaccumulators, meaning they can absorb high concentrations of specific pollutants from the soil through their roots. Thanks sunflowers!
#science #sciencefacts #sunflowers #hyperaccumulators
#science #sciencefacts #sunflowers #hyperaccumulators
So: "phytomining"!
you take land where metals (like silver) are mixed into the soil
you seed the land with "hyperaccumulators" -- plants that suck up metal as they grow
when the crops are mature, harvest and burn them
voila
metals
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you take land where metals (like silver) are mixed into the soil
you seed the land with "hyperaccumulators" -- plants that suck up metal as they grow
when the crops are mature, harvest and burn them
voila
metals
item #7 in my latest "Linkfest": buttondown.com/clivethompso...
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 AM
So: "phytomining"!
you take land where metals (like silver) are mixed into the soil
you seed the land with "hyperaccumulators" -- plants that suck up metal as they grow
when the crops are mature, harvest and burn them
voila
metals
item #7 in my latest "Linkfest": buttondown.com/clivethompso...
you take land where metals (like silver) are mixed into the soil
you seed the land with "hyperaccumulators" -- plants that suck up metal as they grow
when the crops are mature, harvest and burn them
voila
metals
item #7 in my latest "Linkfest": buttondown.com/clivethompso...
If soil has high levels of metal, plants will either die or do everything they can to avoid it. But, one group has taken a different path: evolve to be able to safely absorb large amounts of the metals.
How Metal-Absorbing Plants Could Make Mining Greener
Plants called “hyperaccumulators” have evolved to absorb high levels of metals. Scientists want to harness them for greener metal mining.
www.sciencefriday.com
July 30, 2024 at 1:16 PM
If soil has high levels of metal, plants will either die or do everything they can to avoid it. But, one group has taken a different path: evolve to be able to safely absorb large amounts of the metals.
Sunflowers are used to assist in clean up after a nuclear disaster.
They are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima in the attempt to aid in soil restoration.
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They are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima in the attempt to aid in soil restoration.
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June 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Sunflowers are used to assist in clean up after a nuclear disaster.
They are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima in the attempt to aid in soil restoration.
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They are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima in the attempt to aid in soil restoration.
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New paper on the cultivation of three nickel hyperaccumulators in their natural growth environmen led by Dimitris Kyrkas - International Journal of #Phytoremediation (tandfresearch.bsky.social)
#agromining #Bornmuellera #ultramafic #Odontarrhena
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#agromining #Bornmuellera #ultramafic #Odontarrhena
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cultivation of nickel hyperaccumulators for metal extraction in their natural growth environment: a four-year field application
As the climate crisis drives the green transition and increases industrial demand for Ni, agromining aims to develop systems for better management of Ni-rich soils, offering a novel approach to agr...
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July 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
New paper on the cultivation of three nickel hyperaccumulators in their natural growth environmen led by Dimitris Kyrkas - International Journal of #Phytoremediation (tandfresearch.bsky.social)
#agromining #Bornmuellera #ultramafic #Odontarrhena
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#agromining #Bornmuellera #ultramafic #Odontarrhena
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hyperaccumulators like sunflowers can extract toxic elements like lead, mercury and arsenic from the soil cleaning up the environment. Using plants like these for phytoremediation may be cheaper than other methods of cleaning contaminated areas. youtu.be/OOS2RDN9QZg
Hyperaccumulators and phytoremediation, using plants like sunflowers to clean up the environment.
YouTube video by m j murcott
youtu.be
April 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Hyperaccumulators like sunflowers can extract toxic elements like lead, mercury and arsenic from the soil cleaning up the environment. Using plants like these for phytoremediation may be cheaper than other methods of cleaning contaminated areas. youtu.be/OOS2RDN9QZg
Did you know? Sunflowers are used to assist in cleaning up after a nuclear disaster. They are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima. [🎞️ thebrainmaze]
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Did you know? Sunflowers are used to assist in cleaning up after a nuclear disaster. They are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima. [🎞️ thebrainmaze]
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