Trees are living skyscrapers: they pull carbon from thin air, pump water to dizzying heights with pressures that’d crush us, and grow by wrapping living tissues in layers of dead cells to form wood and bark. Underneath it all is a razor-thin strip of living cells that tirelessly moves water hundreds of meters, builds indestructible wood, and coordinates millions of processes.
Kurzgesagt’s “Trees Are So Weird” dives into what makes these giants so resilient—and possibly immortal—unpacking how their living and dead tissues work together like a colossal, self-repairing cable network.
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