SciShow Tangents Classics - Trees
SciShow Tangents
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Do You Know What the Fungus Are Doing to the Tree Roots?
A lot of transpiration is happening in the leaves, and they'rels. There's also like, water evaporating under the leaves. That evaporation is what draws nutrients through the whole tree. You can't have tree without some way of getting nutrients in water. Unless you're a lazy vampire treeya? Cause it's still alive, but it's just like ken nutrients from other trees. These ghost redwoods can't photo synthesize. They have waxy needles, weak wood, slow growth and are basically parasites. And sometimes these ghost trees starve to death, but they always grow back afterward.
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