User blog comment:DancePowderer/Metaphysical Horticulture/@comment-89.139.198.106-20120802133008

There is one thing I still don't get.

Why is this discovered only relatively recently (by Vegapunk I assume) ?? This should hxave been common knowledge by now.

For example suppose a DF dies on a ship, where many types of fruits SHOULD be available, his crewmates will surely not fail to notice it's presence.

Where DF are to be found anyway? If someone dies in town, I'd assume it'd go to a fruit shop (naturally). At any rate, many people should have stumbled across this phenomenon and exploited it to give the powers to their friends instead.