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[littleredstrawhat]

I've been thinking more and more about the devil fruits and have come to some conlusions about thier nature.

Nature being that they are alive. Before you go " well duh" on me hear me out.

When ever someone talks about the devil fruit they usually treat it as simply and item that can grant great power at the cost of being able to swim but all fruits exist for one reason to deliver seeds to new places.

So here we go my idea on the lifecycle of the devil fruit.

The plant that produces the devil fruit(be it bush vine or tree) does so to lure an animal (say a pirate) to swallow tha seeds and carry them to other places.It is documented by luffy that unlike most fruits the devil fruit doesn't taste very good so it goes to reason that the powers they grant are the lure to get animals to eat them. The seeds are most likey indegestable and stay the stomach or intestine for a lifetime.

As they are most common on and those who eat them seem to flock to the grandline this must be the best place for them to grow.

Why is a devil fruit user a hammer in the water?

Because only at the bottom of the sea (where their is most likely lots of seastone)can the seeds finally germinate. The animals body is then used as fertilizer.

After an unknown amount of the plant reaches the surface and starts to produce fruit. Then the cycle begins again.

Don't be suprised if a devil fruit grove is also a pirates graveyard.

Of course this could all be just a load of bull but I think it realy makes sense.

P.S
If anyone already posted and idea similar to this I had know idea and I am sorry.

[Sloth]

little, I like how you think.

Though the last part doesn't really make sense, but the first part is good.

[Bounty1Berry]

Interesting theory.

I'd adapt it slightly. I think waiting for DEATH would be a very poor evolutionary strategy. The time between seed release (someone eating the fruit) and the seed growing (death) could be 10 years or more. A real inefficient way to spread across the world. In addition, sitting in a dead body isn't necessarily the way to get to the sea. Not all pirates (or DF eaters in general) will be buried there, or drown.

A more plausible (based on other fruit) model– the seeds are expelled in the waste. If it just takes a few days to digest, the pirate's likely back at sea, and when he passes the seeds, they're headed to the bottom

[littleredstrawhat]

If the seeds were just pooed out thier would be no explaination for the loss on streangth in seawater.

And there is a major chance that the animal will deficate on the land. If the seeds stay inside the animal till it is submerged in water and then cause it to sink to the bottom it has a better cance of reaching the seafloor unharmed than if simply alowed to drift in the open ocean.

This is especialy true if the seeds are very small and too light to sink on thier own.

Like I said fruits are a plants way of useing animals to spread its seed to places where it can flurish.

The devil fruit is only looking out for itself and all signs point to the idea that the bottom of the sea is where they all want to be.

[COWMAKAZE]

Very interesting… I like this theory. A lot. It certainly explains why we haven't met another rubber man - only one fruit of each type can be in circulation at any given time. The Devil Fruit may actually be a type of parasite, and is never digested at all. Plenty of parasites live this way, attempting to kill their hosts as a means to reach another host, in this case the ocean. Perhaps originally the Fruit was very successful, and many people died of drowning after eating one. But as the legend spread, people were more careful - but the fruit didn't change, because it was still sucessful, just slower.

I find only one problem with this theory - if the devil fruits are really plants, then how are they pollinated? All plants must pollinate or self-pollinate, and if they self-pollinate, they could never have evolved into the different species of Devil Fruit - Gomu Gomu Fruit, Bara Bara Fruit, Hane Hane Fruit, etc.. Perhaps in the old days, when people constantly died, they pollinated under water? There must have been lot under water at a time back then. This allows for natural selection - which one gets you to the water fastest and is the most desirable?