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You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I'm off to edit that wiki, the tree is a bit of a misnomer.

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I see a fight coming your way in the talk section, lol. Good luck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Nah, it's correct. Just needs a clarifying sentence. They use the word tree but it's not technically a tree, rather tree-like. The word tree is used for ease, colloquially. They grew like this as they are plants well suited for seaside wind and storms, hurricanes... Wetland plants. The grasses that didn't give up. Tree definitions vary from form vs function, and form is used more colloquially.

Edit: Fixed yayayayyay I need more edits this month

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

No tree is a tree. "Tree" is not a clearly-defined taxonomical category. Anything that is tree-like gets grouped under the catgory "tree".

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