Had to look it up because I didnt beleive

sure enough its correct

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

Also cool that for a period of like 60 million years, nothing decomposed dead trees. As they would die or fall over, they'd just stay there, piling up. This is where most oil came from. The massive amounts of trees stacking up before bacteria and fungus evolved to decomposed them. Imagine 60 million years worth of trees just lying around.

*Thought I'd add an edit, since this post got quite a few eyes on it: It was mostly coal that all those trees turned into. Not oil.

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

Nature likes things that turn hard- Wait what?

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

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.

I think palm trees are a kind of grass

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

So crabapple trees...?

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

Also, no such thing as fish.

Google it.

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

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