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You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Palms, like corn, are really tall grass.

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2011/11/06/yes-technically-palms-are-a-big-grass/

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 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 ,like fish, embrace the true, intuitive, childlike definition of it as just a form, a trunk with leaves at the top.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How many social credit points do I lose if I refer to bamboo products as "wood" outside of botany nerd circles?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd say about 69.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Nice.

[–] ctenidium 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It’s the lack of lignin (bamboo uses silica as a strengthener) that sets it apart.

But bamboo is a grass, anyways.

[–] ctenidium 2 points 4 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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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

Oh I see

[–] ctenidium 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

"Trees" have secondary growth while "palms" have primary growth. At least that is what I have been told in dendrology lectures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_growth

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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