On trees...

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• Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I always liked the idea of being a tree like life form.

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  • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Imagine looking down at a bunch of cute little things crawling all over you for hundreds of years and then one day one of them shows up with an axe

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• andybytes@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, I’m just a product of my environment.

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• b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I want to be a tree too when I grow up!

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are at least all woody plants related?

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  • RedAggroBest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As far as they are all vascular plants, but that’s like, basically everything that isn’t moss iirc.

    The evolution of wood is common because it’s simple for cellulose to get denser in response to a need to grow taller to outcompete your neighbors.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So trees are the “evolve to crabs” meme and wood is like a crab shell. Or, I guess just exoskeleton, because things that aren’t crabs also have hard shells.

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    • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was under the impression that lignin was what really made trees possible, and that seems like an odd chemical for a bunch of unrelated plants to all evolve. Is there something I’m missing?

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Trees are tall because trees are tall.

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