Trees Are So Weird

Kurzgesagt’s latest dive into tree biology shows how these giants build themselves from thin air, pump water with enough pressure to crush a human, and grow using living “cables” wrapped in layers of dead cells. Just under the bark is a razor-thin strip of living tissue that tirelessly hauls water up hundreds of meters, churns out indestructible wood, and synchronizes millions of processes—making trees some of Earth’s most extreme, resilient, and perhaps even immortal organisms.

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