ELi5: Can plants be “overweight” if they produce too much food in the similar fashion to how animals gain weight if they eat too much food?

Question

When animals eat too much food, they gain weight. What happens to a plant that produces too much food via photosynthesis? Can plants be overweight?

In: Biology

Answer 1

No. But they can experience intumescence, where they have absorbed so much water that their tissues engorge and get covered in these little bumps.

EDIT: I was thinking about tree bark. But yes, as others have pointed out, it can also result in ruptures.