mhoye (@mhoye@mastodon.social)
Föderation EN Do 23.05.2024 20:26:43
TIL: Trees aren't a thing, trees are a strategy. It's not that some plants are trees, it's that some plants find being a tree to be useful.
EamonnMR (@EMR@mastodon.sdf.org)
Föderation EN Do 23.05.2024 21:13:17
@mhoye Check out Toxicodendron for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicodendron
You've got vines, shrubs, and huge trees all closely related to each other, but all visually similar enough to other random plants that they ended up with names like 'poison ivy' and 'poison oak.'