Had to look it up because I didnt beleive

sure enough its correct

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree

I'm a billion years, crabs will start turning into trees and trees into crabs. merging into the ubercreature

theres also a definition of a what a tree in the sense , its develops wood, many things are tree like, but not trees: such as palms(just overgrown herbs), dracaena( aka cabbage tree, they have something dracenoid thickining.) extinct plants like giant lycophytes and ferns

here’s a cool blog post that expands on this There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

i didn’t even put it in a bookmark folder, it’s just loose on my bookmark bar because it’s such an interesting post that i reread from time to time

I think palm trees are a kind of grass

So that's why every stargate planet looks like Canada

There are fern trees, conifer trees, and flowering trees. Where are my moss trees?

Same for roots, btw, just earlier.

I wasn't ready for how weird this comment section turned out to be...

Nature likes things that turn hard- Wait what?

Arborization !

Concentrated sun energy sinks

Also, no such thing as fish.

Google it.

My sister in law recently quipped that "Trees are a social construct" and at first I thought she was just being glib but now I can't get that statement out of my head.

Its called convergent evolution and you also have some shit you wouldnt believe that makes all apes similar to us.

So crabapple trees...?

Unsurpassable power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabtree