"See? I knew you were the one to talk to about this," John said, laughing softly as Sam went to the car. Taking the notebook, he scanned the pages while he listened to Sam. "Coconut is awesome and you can make use out of just about every part of the plant from the fruit to the roots. I won't bore you with the dimensional theories. But, judging from what I've seen, there are differences between dimensions, but evolution seems to have gone along similar paths just without the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. Without that kind of drastic climate change, we're probably looking at something close to what our worlds would have seen 70 million years or so ago. But, the nice thing about plants is you can tell a lot about their function by looking at their design. Even easier than a computer. And a lot of trees and grasses were already in existence. Well, the latter's still a relatively new discovery but...sorry, rambling. My mom used to make me talk out loud as a kid when I was figuring things like this out. That way she knew I was on the right track." He hadn't done that in ages. But, being here brought up a lot more memories than he thought he'd have since he was such a little kid.
There were plenty of things he'd seen just at the edge of the camp that he could add to Sam's notes and plenty about each plant Sam had cataloged that John could possibly add to as well. But, when he found the type of leaf that looked quite a bit like what he was hoping for, he finally looked up. "Any chance this came off one of those?" He pointed to something just beyond the edge of the camp, a stand of what looked like bamboo stalks if bamboo stalks in their worlds had grown more than two hundred feet tall. "Because if it is, that's what I was hoping to find."