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Wortfish wrote:

newolder wrote:

Wortfish wrote:...
The sugars that power them, and the oxygen they breathe, comes from the air.
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Which airborne sugars are we talking about here - candy floss clouds, sucrose snow, glucose graupel, fructose fog, lactose lockets or what?

Carbon dioxide, actually. Sugars are carbohydrates: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesi ... nts1.shtml

Green plants absorb light energy using chlorophyll in their leaves. They use it to react carbon dioxide with water to make a sugar called glucose.

You seem to blissfully or intentionally unaware that your quote refutes your own claim. Sugar doesn't come from the soil nor from the plant, it comes from the absorption of sun and water, neither of which originate from the soil or the plant.