Trees Are So Weird dives into how trees’ve become Earth’s ultimate life hackers: they turn thin air (CO₂) into massive bodies, pump water at pressures that’d crush us, and grow through a living “cable” system wrapped in layers of dead wood. Just under the bark, the cambium—a paper-thin sheet of living cells—juggles water transport, wood building, and millions of signals every second.
This ingenious combo of dead support tissue and living growth machinery makes trees ridiculously resilient and, in some cases, practically immortal. It’s a wild look at why these ancient giants keep standing tall for millennia.
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