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On trees... (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Are at least all woody plants related?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Trees are like every other plant, ONLY MORE SO

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] Fuck_u_spez_ 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think it's more complicated than that. For example, bamboo "trees" are actually in the grass family.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fish too

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Land will be trees, beaches will be crabs, and I've heard oceans will be nothing but jellyfish

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Heh, branch

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Things have independently evolved into crabs like five times or something

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Yes, but I think OP’s point is those 5-6 crab-events all came from a narrow taxonomic group. All plant families have some trees. Only one sub-group of animals contains crabs.

It is as if all trees only came from members of the lily family.

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