And now:
Name your favourite prehistoric tree.
Submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Seleni@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ginkgo and Arucaria for beating out almost all the others in the game of survival lol
KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Had a Gingko tree outside my childhood home up in Washington. We were right down the highway from Ginkgo Petrified Forest too. It was wild knowing a tree like the one at home stood just down the road ~ 16 MYA. Yeah, there aren’t a lot of gingkos in that park, and there’s plenty of other trees that have the same circumstance, but that gingko was special to me.
Mothra@mander.xyz 1 month ago
I’ve always been a fan of the prehistoric plants ( though if I’m being pedantic the vast majority of plants are prehistoric). Araucaria and Dicksonia are the best of the best!
SleepyBear@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Gotta be the Dicksonia. Dicksonia mom HAH
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Is there a Face Palm?
oyfrog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Arborescence is one of my favorite examples of convergent evolution .
Serialchemist@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
Fan palms. Still hang out with Washingtonia and Robusta from time to time
flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 month ago
To me the coolest ones are certainly any prehistoric Lycopodiopsida, like the Sigillaria shown here!
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The pine. I like Asparagus.
Drusas@fedia.io 1 month ago
Looks like horsetail to me.
Edit: lol, I should have read all the names first. Apparently horsetail descends from it.
HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sigillaria is so cute!!!
postcapitalism@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Fucking sad
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 1 month ago
But they have names already.