Comment on Palms

• Not_mikey@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d say about 69.

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    • dogsoahC@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nice.

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  • ctenidium@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Never doubted bamboo not being a grass. But I didn’t know about the silica thing - that’s really cool!! Thank you for telling this!

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      • GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s the lack of lignin (bamboo uses silica as a strengthener)

        Oh I see

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• ctenidium@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    not necessarily no

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree

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• FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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