Why can't plants poop?

Question

one of my dreams was to have a poopy plant!

Answer 1

In a sense they poop oxygen and we swallow it.

Answer 2

Plants manufacture their own food which is glucose, a simple sugar, using energy from the sun in the presents of chlorophyll. They use water from the soil and CO2 from the air to make this simple sugar, the only "waste" or byproduct is O2 which the return to the air as a gas through the stomata in their leaves. Through respiration the plants convert the glucose to energy and more complex carbohydrates. The only waste or byproduct is the gas CO2 which is returned to the air in the same way as the O2.

Answer 3

I assume by poop you mean excretement such as that produced by humans derived largely from food consumption.

Plants do have by products of metabolism. Excessive sugars are stored as starch and sugars in roots, stems and leaves. Gasses are released through the openings in the leaves called stomates. Many plants are leaky in that plant sap, containing nutrients, are extruded through stomates.

But there is no digestive system nor a food intake such as in humans that produces feces.

Answer 4

Because plants are autotrophs. Which means they make their own food by the sun. They don't eat food like we do.
If they don't eat any food they don't have anything to digest and release it out. They use the sun, carbon dioxide and water to make their own energy from the sun.

-freshman

Answer 5

hmm... ok?