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Name your favourite prehistoric tree.

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/554147e0-db2a-481f-b75a-9a7d95e8b881.jpeg

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  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But they have names already.

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And now:

    No. 3: The Larch

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    • Ignot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Theeee Laaarch

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To me the coolest ones are certainly any prehistoric Lycopodiopsida, like the Sigillaria shown here!

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  • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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!

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  • Seleni@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ginkgo and Arucaria for beating out almost all the others in the game of survival lol

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    • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • SleepyBear@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Gotta be the Dicksonia. Dicksonia mom HAH

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  • TankieTanuki@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is there a Face Palm?

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  • oyfrog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Arborescence is one of my favorite examples of convergent evolution .

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  • Serialchemist@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fan palms. Still hang out with Washingtonia and Robusta from time to time

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The pine. I like Asparagus.

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    • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Looks like horsetail to me.

      Edit: lol, I should have read all the names first. Apparently horsetail descends from it.

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  • HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sigillaria is so cute!!!

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  • postcapitalism@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fucking sad

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