Gum Trees
Tropical trees…do not lose all their leaves annually, as deciduous trees do.… (She) used a magic marker to write numbers on the leaves of some Australian trees, and then she climbed into the trees every so often to see how many numbered leaves were still hanging there. Nineteen years later she found leaves with magic marker numbers on them that she had written on when she was a younger woman. The leaves had remained alive and unchanged for almost two decades. This illustrates the difficulty humans can have in seeing what’s happening in a forest canopy. Humans don’t live long enough to see many events in trees unfold. – Richard Preston, The Wild Trees
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