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.
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.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 months ago
Palms, like corn, are really tall grass.
Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 4 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.
GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz 4 months ago
How many social credit points do I lose if I refer to bamboo products as “wood” outside of botany nerd circles?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 months ago
I’d say about 69.
dogsoahC@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Nice.
ctenidium@lemmy.world 4 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.
Seleni@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s the lack of lignin (bamboo uses silica as a strengthener) that sets it apart.
But bamboo is a grass, anyways.
ctenidium@lemmy.world 4 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
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 months ago
not necessarily no
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 months ago
true enough, that doesn’t exclude them from being trees though.