Trees generally snap, or at least lose a few branches, when faced with hurricane-strength winds. Not palm trees. 🌴👀
Trees generally snap, or at least lose a few branches, when faced with hurricane-strength winds. Not palm trees. These staples of the tropics typically bend during gusty weather.For starters, unlike traditional trees, palm trees are not made of wood."Instead, you'll find a jumble of spongy tissue, scattered instead of arranged" inside a palm, geochemist Hope Jahren wrote in her autobiography"Lab Girl " . Most trees lay down rings as they grow every year.
This arrangement has helped the palm tree flourish in warm and windy tropical areas the world over. There are 188 known genera of palm, and 2,585 species, said Judy Jernstedt, a professor of plant sciences at the University of California, Davis.
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