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soco ◴[] No.42150283[source]
I really expected a wood(en) frog here, qualifying truly as a biological miracle. But the wood frogs are cool as well.
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furyofantares ◴[] No.42150799[source]
Oh god. This made me wonder, what is wood, anyway? And I've just come away much more confused.

Bamboo is a grass and doesn't come from a tree. Palm wood comes from palm trees, except palm tree trunks are apparently a totally different type of structure than other tree trunks, sounds closer to Papyrus. No growth rings, a fiber type structure. Is Papyrus wood?

Any plant matter above a certain density? I don't think that's it. Corn stalks aren't wood.

Man, I don't know. I am certain that it must be plant matter though, so yes, a wooden frog would be a biological miracle.

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1. mawise ◴[] No.42151840[source]
It's worse than that. _Tree_ isn't even a well-defined thing.

> Trees are not a monophyletic taxonomic group but consist of a wide variety of plant species that have independently evolved a trunk and branches as a way to tower above other plants to compete for sunlight.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree