Submitted 1 day ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Exactly! I’ve said this for years, every time the meme comes up. I’m saying it right now to anyone nearby.
I mean, I have no real basis to know if canopy friction is the reason or not but I’m saving this post as support of my confirmation bias anyway.
It’s sort of how trees don’t have limbs lower than the height of a box truck along major roads.
Not really. Along most major roads, if trees are close enough to even potentially be a problem, they will be trimmed by road crews.
It’s not because they get hit by trucks, it’s because they’re deliberately trimmed back to keep the road clear.
So trees have evolved truck-sensing organs in the span of mere decades? Unbelievable!
Apparently that’s the leading theory, but another is just that for reasons I am absolutely unqualified to explain, they sense light in specific ways that causes them to grow differently once they get close enough to another tree blocking some of the light there.
Like a houseplant angling toward the window light?
So is there some research showing it’s caused by damage? That should be easy to confirm, right?
Good band name
Just let the tips touch
pigup@lemmy.world 21 minutes ago
We are a product of the forces that shape us.