Trees Are So Weird

Ever wondered how trees pull off their superpowers? Kurzgesagt dives into how these giants build themselves from thin air, crush water through their veins at human-crushing pressures, and stack living “cables” of phloem and layers of dead wood to grow sky-high.

Beneath their bark is a razor-thin strip of living cells that tirelessly pumps water hundreds of meters, crafts indestructible wood, and juggles millions of functions—making trees unbelievably resilient, and maybe even biologically immortal.

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