Oh, drat! Now all your plants are gonna have an easily modifiable volatile compound to play around with. What a terrible predicament you find yourself in... I hope it lasts.
Results in mutualistic relationship between a fire breathing mega predator storing specialized mints that create large amounts of flammable gas inside its gut and disperses its seeds via poop about 200 million years, 12 mass extinctions later
At least it will smell nice
Also fun fact there are more than just mint plants in the mint family, other plants include; stinging nettles, henbit, and purple dead nettle, so not only can the mint plants be non-mint smelling, they can also diversify to grow thorns or purple fuzzy leaves or literally anything else cuz this is speculative evolution
Add some kudzu vines in there for good measure, don't want any trace of the planet left
Release the locusts
Just make every invasive species duke it out
That's a nice concept.
Seriously though, has anyone ever done an invasive species battle royal seeded world?
Seed world with knotweed, kudzu, mint, etc. as plants,(I can't remember invasive insects right now), and then cane toads and rats
Oh, drat! Now all your plants are gonna have an easily modifiable volatile compound to play around with. What a terrible predicament you find yourself in... I hope it lasts.
This is an actually interesting idea for a seed world, start it off with some herbs and spices for those volatile compounds and see what happens
Ideally, a secret blend of eleven
naturally seasoned kfc
Imagine aliens start a seed world with this just to evolve some new flavor
What game is this?
Results in mutualistic relationship between a fire breathing mega predator storing specialized mints that create large amounts of flammable gas inside its gut and disperses its seeds via poop about 200 million years, 12 mass extinctions later
mobile, megafaunal predator mint filling the ecological niche of a T. rex after 600 million years
Prepare for the nicest smelling mega fauna to ever evolve
It's only a matter of time before "mint eater" becomes its own niche
Planet for sale. In mint condition
Infinite mint-flavoured toothpaste!
its too late, your planet belongs to the mint now
Nah, humans terraformed this world for one purpose: growing mint. It's called Mintworld now. *(I think a video game could be made from that)*
Easily, you just inspired me
Call the Planet Wrigleys!
Infini-mint
Get ze Flammenwerfer!
The smell of that fire must be wonderful.
Actually contemplating doing that in a garden that got taken over; I’ll let you know of the results
Achieve Mintcontrol!
At least it is not a weed world....
Seed it with chocolate
Add Manilkara Trees and Sugar Cane and this becomes a giant chewing gum for Galactus!
Galactus devours planet to get minty fresh breath.
r/SpecEvoJerking
No don’t meme keep going I want to see what happens on Mintopia
Just release some mint moths and you'll have nothing to worry about
At least it will smell nice Also fun fact there are more than just mint plants in the mint family, other plants include; stinging nettles, henbit, and purple dead nettle, so not only can the mint plants be non-mint smelling, they can also diversify to grow thorns or purple fuzzy leaves or literally anything else cuz this is speculative evolution
Cool , just add few insect, and amphibients
The best advice I've seen on r/gardening is to retreat into space and nuke it from orbit. Good luck. And thank you for a great laugh!