dannoffs

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

  According to OP’s definition:

  Woody ✅

  Secondary growth (feathers) ✅

  Not a monolid ✅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck it, birds are trees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no way you actually read that.

  It’s literally a blog post of one person’s opinion which concludes without a definitive statement, that it’s not settled if they’re trees or not, and then links to a page “for further reading” that categorizes them under trees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C3&q=c…

  Someone should tell the authors of these hundreds of papers then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a reminder that there is no universally accepted botanical definition of tree. It is also a reminder that usage supersedes definition, so pointing out that coconut palm trees aren’t “trees” makes you both annoying and wrong.