“Tree” isn’t a biological definition. It’s a descriptive term for “a tall plant with at least one rigid central trunk.” Which means that anything that looks like a tree is probably a tree, regardless of species.
There’s no widely-accepted scientific definition of a tree.
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From the coco palm family!
🎵 Ya ya ya ya ya 🎵
Wait, what?
Palms, like corn, are really tall grass.
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2011/11/06/yes-technically-palms-are-a-big-grass/
How many social credit points do I lose if I refer to bamboo products as “wood” outside of botany nerd circles?
I’d say about 69.
Nice.
If I remember correctly, wood consists mainly of cellulose, lignin, and hemi-cellulose. I don’t know about bamboo, but I guess it’s some kind of woody material.
It’s the lack of lignin (bamboo uses silica as a strengthener) that sets it apart.
But bamboo is a grass, anyways.
Never doubted bamboo not being a grass. But I didn’t know about the silica thing - that’s really cool!! Thank you for telling this!
It’s the lack of lignin (bamboo uses silica as a strengthener)
Oh I see
“Trees” have secondary growth while “palms” have primary growth. At least that is what I have been told in dendrology lectures.
not necessarily no
true enough, that doesn’t exclude them from being trees though.
it looks like a tree and quacks like a tree though.
Ironically, in this case, that literally means it’s a tree
Trees are the plant version of crabs.
Okay, and raspberries aren’t technically berries at all, but aggregate fruits. In other words, so the fuck what? When you say ‘coconut tree’, everyone knows what plant you’re referring to.
You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you 🌴🥥🍹
Time to post one of my favorite songs:
(“Da Coconut Nut”, by Ryan Cayabyab. This version is probably the one performed by his group, Smokey Mountain.)
This song reminds us that the coconut is not a nut; it is the fruit of the cocopalm.
Da palm grows da coconut and turns da election around
You can tell it’s an Aspen from the way it is
Thats pretty neat!
It’s probably going to be political since it’s wrong.
The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus Cocos. The term “coconut” (or the archaic “cocoanut”) can refer to the whole coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which botanically is a drupe, not a nut. They are ubiquitous in coastal tropical regions and are a cultural icon of the tropics.
I’m off to edit that wiki, the tree is a bit of a misnomer.
I see a fight coming your way in the talk section, lol. Good luck.
Nah, it’s correct. Just needs a clarifying sentence. They use the word tree but it’s not technically a tree, rather tree-like. The word tree is used for ease, colloquially. They grew like this as they are plants well suited for seaside wind and storms, hurricanes… Wetland plants. The grasses that didn’t give up. Tree definitions vary from form vs function, and form is used more colloquially.
Edit: Fixed yayayayyay I need more edits this month
I think it’s arguable that “tree” is just a term for a growth habit rather than anything really taxonomically meaningful.
agreed. my grandma used to have a big ol’ tree in her front yard, but it had to get cut down. it didn’t die though, and thanks to this unintentional coppicing, it is now an enormous bush. my grandma is very proud of her bush.
No tree is a tree. “Tree” is not a clearly-defined taxonomical category. Anything that is tree-like gets grouped under the catgory “tree”.
Yeah, good luck with that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree
In wider definitions, the taller palms, tree ferns, bananas, and bamboos are also trees.
science has gone too far with this one!!
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