Phytoremediation is a fascinating realm, beyond the hunds. As energy is always transfered and altered somehow to something else entirely.
For better or worse.
So let us imagine something better. As the ions of metals always enter the roots of a tree, now think about what metals are truly toxic for you and me? Within this electrified satellite state of affairs.
Then there are the contaminants and metals we know the Salicaceae can metabolise, yet the genus’s within that family drop leaves enabling an anaerobic scatter, impacting stream health more so than other plant matter.
The pine has been proven from both remediation and river stability, yet there is so much more of what native organic biota can be.
As each place has evolved to consolidate what it creates, whatever has once existed above and below….
Samarium.
In that space.
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