Plants Absorb Gold: Phytomining's Surprising Science

Some plants have a cool ability: they can suck up tiny bits of gold from the soil!

This process is called phytomining, like the plants are little miners.

Plants like eucalyptus and sunflowers do this by absorbing metals through their roots and storing them in their leaves or stems.

Though the amount of gold they collect is small, the plants' ability to do this is still remarkable.

Right now, it's too expensive to get the gold out, but it's useful for cleaning up polluted soil.

It's a neat example of how nature is full of surprises!