On trees...

Had to look it up because I didnt beleive

sure enough its correct

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree

I'm a billion years, crabs will start turning into trees and trees into crabs. merging into the ubercreature

here’s a cool blog post that expands on this There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

i didn’t even put it in a bookmark folder, it’s just loose on my bookmark bar because it’s such an interesting post that i reread from time to time

So that's why every stargate planet looks like Canada

Nature likes things that turn hard- Wait what?

I think palm trees are a kind of grass

Also, no such thing as fish.

Google it.

My sister in law recently quipped that "Trees are a social construct" and at first I thought she was just being glib but now I can't get that statement out of my head.

So crabapple trees...?

Its called convergent evolution and you also have some shit you wouldnt believe that makes all apes similar to us.

Unsurpassable power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabtree

Same for roots, btw, just earlier.

And it's not even one creature or even type of creature. Look up rhizobium.

Tbf, as we learn more about our gut microbiomes, it turns out that humans are that way as well. Maybe that's why we have the thoughts in our heads vs. the feelings in our guts... (no that's actually not it at all, except... isn't it though?).

There are fern trees, conifer trees, and flowering trees. Where are my moss trees?

theres also a definition of a what a tree in the sense , its develops wood, many things are tree like, but not trees: such as palms(just overgrown herbs), dracaena( aka cabbage tree, they have something dracenoid thickining.) extinct plants like giant lycophytes and ferns

I wasn't ready for how weird this comment section turned out to be...

Arborization !

tbf isn't a tree just a plant but big? makes sense that any plant species can evolve into a tree just by getting bigger

Trees are like every other plant, ONLY MORE SO

The future is gonna be tree with crabs....

Heh, branch

I thought crab-like animals were all actually pretty closely related to each other, i.e. all crab-like animals are arthropods, which is a less broad category (despite the incredibly huge amount of species in it) than 'all plants that can form a wooden trunk'. Any taxonomists here to confirm/deny?

Concentrated sun energy sinks

Or maybe the microorganisms and food sources that life forms are exposed to have more of an effect on how the macroorganisms evolve than is currently talked about, which would explain why so many things in similar environments evolve similar traits.

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

By the logic we are not humans...

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

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

Are at least all woody plants related?