Concentrated sun energy sinks

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

Arborization !

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

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

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

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

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.

Same for roots, btw, just earlier.

I think palm trees are a kind of grass

Had to look it up because I didnt beleive

sure enough its correct

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

So that's why every stargate planet looks like Canada

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