Magnolias

Comments

• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Poor ginkgo trees.

  Too old for their original friends, too young for the new friends after this wave of evolution collapses upon the banks of human wanton destruction of the environment.

  source

  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    americanforests.org/…/the-trees-that-miss-the-mam…

    source

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Warning: Reading this article may cause a whiplash-inducing paradigm shift. You will no longer view wild areas the same way. Your concepts of “pristine wilderness” and “the balance of nature” will be forever compromised. You may even start to see ghosts.

      Damn, what a hook!

      source
• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fern: hold my beer.

  source
• luxadazy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  gingko fruits smell like vomit. we have several female trees on my street & they dump a ton of the fruit on the sidewalk, meaning i track vomit fruit into my apartment when i walk to & from the grocery store.

  source

  • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a female ginkgo on the campus of the college I went to. We called it the “poo tree.”

    source
• megopie@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ginkos are crazy because like, they were the last branch of a dead tree of life, secluded deep in mountain range in central China, likely to go extinct next time there was a significant climatic shift in the area.

  And then humans were like “damn, I like this tree, I will plant it literally all over the world” and in all likelihood this just massively improved their chances of surviving a few more million years, since now they’re not liable to get one shot by a single event in the area they’re native to.

  source