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Very good points, thanks. I know that legumes fall into their own group so if a locust bean is a legume then naturally it must be more closely related to soybea
by tempguy9999 7y ago
Very good points, thanks. I know that legumes fall into their own group so if a locust bean is a legume then naturally it must be more closely related to soybean vines than an apple - but I just never thought of it that way. A rather new perspective.
Personally I wouldn't class a cycad as a tree, nor a date palm, and I wouldn't call a lepidodendron one either, but after a bit of reflection I've no good reason to take that view, so thanks for all this!
- kragen 7y agoNote that “dendron” is usually translated to English as “tree” but of course that's a pretty weak argument—there's no requirement that words in different languages denote precisely coextensive categories.