fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · edit-28 months agoYou think you just fell out of a coconut tree?mander.xyzimagemessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1230arrow-down125
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minus-squarefossilesque@mander.xyzOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoPalms, like corn, are really tall grass. https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2011/11/06/yes-technically-palms-are-a-big-grass/
minus-squareGlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·8 months agoHow many social credit points do I lose if I refer to bamboo products as “wood” outside of botany nerd circles?
minus-squarectenidium@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoIf 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.
minus-squareSeleni@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoIt’s the lack of lignin (bamboo uses silica as a strengthener) that sets it apart. But bamboo is a grass, anyways.
minus-squarectenidium@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoNever doubted bamboo not being a grass. But I didn’t know about the silica thing - that’s really cool!! Thank you for telling this!
minus-squareGlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months ago It’s the lack of lignin (bamboo uses silica as a strengthener) Oh I see
minus-squarectenidium@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-27 months ago“Trees” have secondary growth while “palms” have primary growth. At least that is what I have been told in dendrology lectures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_growth
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agonot necessarily no https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agotrue enough, that doesn’t exclude them from being trees though.
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!
Oh I see
“Trees” have secondary growth while “palms” have primary growth. At least that is what I have been told in dendrology lectures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_growth
not necessarily no
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree
true enough, that doesn’t exclude them from being trees though.