alt Hacker NewsI recently visited the national history museum and finally got a sense of the _weirdness_ of prehistoric trees. No bark, a green trunk (utilizing photosynthesis), tall like a palm tree. I'd love to see something like that now.
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ceejayoz • yesterday at 3:19 PM
Closest you can come today is probably a tree fern. I've got a Dicksonia antarctica in my living room under grow lights. It's a neat plant.
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kzrdude • yesterday at 10:55 AM
Well, bamboo comes to mind as a really weird tree. It's not a tree, but it's the size of one..
dpc050505 • yesterday at 7:04 PM
Pot plants have no bark and a green trunk and can reach heights of like 12 ft.
pif • yesterday at 11:20 AM
> prehistoric trees
I suppose you are actually talking of a time preceding prehistory by a fair lot!
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marcellus23 • yesterday at 2:43 PM
which museum? Do you mean the Natural History Museum in New York?
kjkjadksj • yesterday at 4:40 PM
Cycads are pretty old
That sounds awesome! The oddest trees I have come across had big thorns like roses all over the trunk. Kind of hard to see because the trunk is so big, but you'd very quickly notice leaning against it.
That was in a botanical garden in Australia. No idea what they were or how common they are. Blew my mind.