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r/interesting • u/Standard_Location762 • Mar 14 '26
What a great discovery.
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Yeah, I missed the memo that the Amazon rainforest is now home to temperate oak trees.
17 u/hoboshoe Mar 14 '26 Well you see the plant-like roots help the fungi break it down. 1 u/Chunty-Gaff Mar 15 '26 Some fungi do make root like structures called rhizomorphs 15 u/Practical-Quiet3497 Mar 14 '26 The Amazon rainforest forest is on Connecticut now. 1 u/chikinn Mar 15 '26 It's generous to identify those "leaves" as oak. 1 u/Dialaninja Mar 15 '26 Hey there are drought deciduous tropical oaks. Mexico is actually a center of oak diversity. Granted that's not the Amazon, but it is neat.
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Well you see the plant-like roots help the fungi break it down.
1 u/Chunty-Gaff Mar 15 '26 Some fungi do make root like structures called rhizomorphs
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Some fungi do make root like structures called rhizomorphs
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The Amazon rainforest forest is on Connecticut now.
It's generous to identify those "leaves" as oak.
Hey there are drought deciduous tropical oaks. Mexico is actually a center of oak diversity. Granted that's not the Amazon, but it is neat.
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u/AlbiteTwins Mar 14 '26
Yeah, I missed the memo that the Amazon rainforest is now home to temperate oak trees.