ms paint tree

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• ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s pronounced M-SPAINT

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• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not great for a tiny planet tho

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• ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  but isn’t that just the most efficient arrangement in a crowded forest where each tree elbows its neighbours out of the way for whatever sunlight they can get?

  why waste energy in making branches and leaves low down when they’ll forever be in the shade?

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  • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Even in baobab forest pictures they seem far enough apart for sunlight not to be an issue. I’d hazard either an environmental or animal caused adaptation (but I can’t seem to find anything about why).

    I’d also say for forests in general “crown shyness” means if they get similar enough height they usually avoid one another rather than compete.

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    • DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Aren’t baobabs absolutely ancient species of trees?

      It could be that they evolved before trees figured shit out, and just… Never needed to change after that.

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• cnlwhs@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  MS Plant

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• Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have read of an African folk take where baobab trees were the result of some deity pulling them out of the ground and punting then back in upside down.

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• MuchNeededRest@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about

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• 200ok@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bonsai end game

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• nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I thought they were Cycads at first (a class in gymnosperms). Though they’re angiosperms, apparently. Still look kind of similar to cycads, though, because of the clustered branches only at the apex. Cool tree.

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  • multifariace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I never took the time to look into this. They do have a primative look to them. I had to look up the flower. It was more complex than I expected.

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cycads have palm-like leaves though, so veeery different! I’d say baobabs are not too different in their growth habit from other Bombacoideae (Malvaceae). Compare with e.g. Ceiba, Pseudobombax, Cavanillesia. And the leaves look just like most Malvaceae plants as well ;)

    Fun fact: Pseudobombax trees can actually do photosynthesis with their trunk, which is green (or at least has green streaks).

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    • nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re right, they do have very different leaves. Photosynthetic trunks are an interesting adaptation. Thanks for the fun fact.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Toy Story tree.

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• klemptor@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lookin like World 1-3

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