> They're not a family but rather a strategy that evolution has rediscovered several times separately. I don't think that is true. My understanding would be mo

> They're not a family but rather a strategy that evolution has rediscovered several times separately. I don't think that is true. My understanding would be more "all angiosperms are trees, and the ones that aren't woody are sort of doing a neoteny. They still usually have "latent tree genes", and so it fairly "easy" to evolve back and forth between small herb and big tree.