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I can't help but feeling a bit sad for this tree. It's been living there, alone, with no other comrades, for thousands of years, silently giving us oxygen witho

I can't help but feeling a bit sad for this tree. It's been living there, alone, with no other comrades, for thousands of years, silently giving us oxygen without asking for anything in return. Maybe people should plant a few trees of its kind around it, so that this fellow can belong to a social network. [1] [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/world/europe/german-forest-ranger-finds-that-trees-have-social-networks-too.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/world/europe/german-forest...

dalke 11y ago
The picture shows that it's surrounded by comrades. Those comrades are the shrubs around it. Until recently, this tree was the same way. Quoting the Wikipedia entry at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko : > For thousands of years, the tree appeared in a stunted shrub formation (also known as a krummholz formation) due to the harsh extremes of the environment in which it lives. During the warming of the last century, the tree has sprouted into a normal tree formation
- plainOldText 11y ago
  A shrub is not a tree. (:
  - riffraff 11y ago
    in this case it is, it's literally the same organism as they share the same roots. Though that would make it lonely again I guess.
  - dalke 11y ago
    Read it again. "For thousands of years, the tree appeared in a stunted shrub formation (also known as a krummholz formation)"