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Name your favourite prehistoric tree.
(lemmy.nz)
But they have names already.
I do not think a single one of your photos shows flowers or spores. Prude!
Cycads? Disgusting.
As a Magnolia man I'm feeling left out.
EDIT: Just showed my mum, she agrees on every point, including Cycads being gross. "Tell them I'm on the warpath and I'm coming after you"
Magnolias with beetle pollination FTW! 😤
Had no idea about this, ty. Usually my local bees enter a drug-fueled rolling-around state inside my magnolia flowers (it's a sight to behold), will have to watch and see if any beetles also visit mine.
And now:
No. 3: The Larch
Theeee Laaarch
Ginkgo and Arucaria for beating out almost all the others in the game of survival lol
I guess Nypa & Acrocomia are cool too
Had a Gingko tree outside my childhood home up in Washington. We were right down the highway from Ginkgo Petrified Forest too. It was wild knowing a tree like the one at home stood just down the road ~ 16 MYA. Yeah, there aren't a lot of gingkos in that park, and there's plenty of other trees that have the same circumstance, but that gingko was special to me.
Gotta be the Dicksonia. Dicksonia mom HAH
I've always been a fan of the prehistoric plants ( though if I'm being pedantic the vast majority of plants are prehistoric). Araucaria and Dicksonia are the best of the best!
Arborescence is one of my favorite examples of convergent evolution .
Fan palms. Still hang out with Washingtonia and Robusta from time to time
To me the coolest ones are certainly any prehistoric Lycopodiopsida, like the Sigillaria shown here!
Sigillaria is so cute!!!
The pine. Looks like a cross between asparagus and broccoli.
Looks like horsetail to me.
Edit: lol, I should have read all the names first. Apparently horsetail descends from it.
Fucking sad
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