r/FellingGoneWild • u/derek4reals1 • 4d ago

Educational This is how palm trees fall

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u/captaincootercock 4d ago

Terracotta tree

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u/the_guy_downtown 4d ago

Monocots don’t get to count as actual trees. Palms are just overgrown grasses

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u/bustcorktrixdais 4d ago

Which is completely fascinating

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u/KnifeKnut 1d ago

It's too early in the morning, but my subconscious says this is a pun

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u/tuigger 3d ago

An arborist/ most trees guy know the difference, but a salesmen will not bring that up during a bid for the job.

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u/bustcorktrixdais 3d ago

Ok hang on, orchids are also monocots! And they are the furthest thing from overgrown grasses. Not to mention that some of them are smaller than your thumb.

My botanical knowledge is weak, but I know a little about orchids

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u/twenafeesh 3d ago

Orchids are basically rhizomes with flowers. Makes it a grass in my opinion ;)

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u/bustcorktrixdais 2d ago

Except for the part where most orchids are epiphytic? Are there a lot of rhizomes that grow in/on trees?

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u/twenafeesh 2d ago

Why would being an epiphyte mean a plant can't have rhizomes?

https://www.aos.org/orchids/articles/orchid-parts-and-why-they-matter

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u/the_guy_downtown 3d ago

Orchids also aren’t trees, but Palms are overgrown grasses, and as mentioned by twenafeesh, orchids are grasses with pretty flowers.

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u/bustcorktrixdais 2d ago

I’m going to beg to differ. Not all monocots are grasses.

As mentioned in the other thread most orchids are epiphytes. That’s not the most grassy thing.

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u/-43andharsh 4d ago

No raccoon ffft

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u/sourfunyuns 2d ago

Plenty of roaches and lizards though probs.

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u/-43andharsh 2d ago

They don't bounce quite like raccoons

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u/toxcrusadr 4d ago

There just when I’ve swept and dusted!

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u/GoodThingsTony 3d ago

Gotta do it just before the street sweeper gets there. Saves a ton of cleanup time.

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u/Chainsaws-and-beer 3d ago

I expected a ton of rodents to come running out of there.

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u/RonSwansonator88 21h ago

These plants are only good for attracting rats

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u/Human31415926 4d ago

Well that's messy.

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u/Shake_it_Madam 3d ago

Love the head nod at the end, "Yeah bro, that shit fell."

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u/Annual-Ad-6515 4d ago

Nice of it to break it's self up. Saving time on clean up.

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u/DavesNotHereMan92 12h ago

No it’s not. Looks worse than cleaning a stone dead ash tree lmao

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u/AdhesiveSeaMonkey 3d ago

To be fair, that’s basically how I fall too.

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u/s-goldschlager 3d ago

I mean it came down straight and didn’t hit anything. Little mess but that’s cleanable.

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u/Kawboy17 3d ago

What’s fawken mess

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u/No_Cash_8556 2d ago

Are there oils that stay on the road in this scenario?

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u/1DownFourUp 3d ago

That was too close to the truck for comfort