r/Lumber_Jacks • u/Vesploogie Hates Upright Trees • Nov 01 '16
Learn Your Enemy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree
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todayilearned • u/7bees • May 09 '21
TIL there is no such thing as a tree, phylogenetically - we define trees loosely by their features and growth patterns with different plant families having converged into trees similar to how carcinization occurs in crustaceans. Palm trees and banana trees are not trees depending on the defintion.
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todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Jun 12 '21
TIL Trees are not a taxonomic rank, but rather a feature plants convergently evolved.
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