Comment on Palms

Downcount@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Palms, like corn, are really tall grass.

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  • Not_mikey@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Conifers aren’t trees by this definition. It seems to completely ignore gymnosperms and even misclassified a couple as dicots like sequoias and junipers.

    We need to stop looking for a scientifically coherent category for a tree and embrace the true, intuitive, childlike definition of it as just a form, like a fish.

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  • GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How many social credit points do I lose if I refer to bamboo products as “wood” outside of botany nerd circles?

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d say about 69.

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      • dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nice.

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    • ctenidium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Seleni@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s the lack of lignin (bamboo uses silica as a strengthener) that sets it apart.

        But bamboo is a grass, anyways.

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  • ctenidium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Trees” have secondary groth while “palms” have primary growth. At least that is what I have been told in dendrology lectures.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_growth

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    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      not necessarily no

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree

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  • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    true enough, that doesn’t exclude them from being trees though.

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