Trees Are So Weird

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Then they dive into what makes trees the ultimate survival champions: they literally build themselves from thin air, hustle water through trunk “pipes” at pressures that’d flatten us humans, and grow by wrapping living vessels in layers of dead wood. Under their bark, a sliver of living cells juggles water transport, wood production and endless coordination—making these giants shockingly resilient and possibly immortal.

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