Well there are certain features needed for a plant to get that big. So those features had to evolve independently each time which is a bit interesting. Wood is the famous example.
Yeah, like monocots don’t have secondary growth so they have to use some tricks to get that large. Like palms first grow to a certain stem size on the ground (or below) and only then grow up. I wonder how lycopods grew that large considering they are not really ferns even… Oh and ferns also can grow to be trees!
tbf isn’t a tree just a plant but big? makes sense that any plant species can evolve into a tree just by getting bigger
Well there are certain features needed for a plant to get that big. So those features had to evolve independently each time which is a bit interesting. Wood is the famous example.
Oh, to be as famous as wood
It’s better than bad, it’s good!
fair enough
Yeah, like monocots don’t have secondary growth so they have to use some tricks to get that large. Like palms first grow to a certain stem size on the ground (or below) and only then grow up. I wonder how lycopods grew that large considering they are not really ferns even… Oh and ferns also can grow to be trees!
I think it’s more complicated than that. For example, bamboo “trees” are actually in the grass family.
Yeah? So are palms trees
huh I never considered bamboo to be a tree in the first place