I was looking through some old vacation pictures and came across this one. It sure gives a perspective on how big these trees are.

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    1 day ago

    Sequoiadendron is the giant redwood, coastal redwood is the tallest, it’s unique in that it’s a hexaploid which rare for a gymnosperm, except ephedra plants. Scientist speculated it’s because it evolved from its self(cloning behaviour) although it’s capable of outcrossing too. The final genus is the metaseaquoia, the Chinese dawn redwood

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 hours ago

        apparently plants like to vegatively reproduce, redwood especially, one of the reason it has duplicates(6 copies of its genome) is during meisosis, during gamtes are “unreduced” so they dont form like half like normal, they just keep the duplicated genome(most conifers are diploids). its not a problem for plants when they do this, but its less common in animals.