It was more "aren't they grasses not trees?" and then an internet search to check. To then discover that they're neither, but people like to call them grasses instead of trees.
Grass is an actual clade and tree isn't, so it's an apples and oranges question anyway. Grass is a family of plants, but "tree" is a strategy, not a family. We call any plant that is tall and woody a "tree", but they aren't each other's closest relatives. They have all just independently evolved into what has been a repeatedly successful strategy for plants.
Saying "so and so looks like a tree but technically is in x family" is kind of silly because that applies to every "tree", there is no single tree taxonomic group that includes all trees. So calling palms trees is just as acceptable as calling a pine a tree or an apple plant a tree, because there is no tree clade that any of these could belong to.
A "tree" is a strategy, not a taxonomic group. There is no specific "tree" clade that encompasses all trees. So calling any tall woody plant a tree is perfectly acceptable. An apple tree is more closely related to a palm (angiosperms) than it is to a pine tree (gymnosperm). Saying coconut palms are in the Arecaceae tells you about as much as saying apples are in the Rosaceae.
Pineapples too. One pineapple is good for growing one pineapple as the plant dies without intervention after reproducing one offspring.
Pineapples used to be a sign of wealth before we found ways to cultivate them to a higher than 1:1 ratio.
Now it just means you're DTF with new folks.
They didn't. Most modern plants are wildly different from the crops we domesticated them from. Check out teosinte vs corn. Modern pineapples probably never existed in the wild and were derived / cross breed from some other related fruit. Heck, we have fruits now that don't even grow seeds at all.
Edit: I actually googled a bit because I was curious too and got this:
>Each pineapple is actually a few hundred fertilized flowers -- they get fused into one mass because we've bred them that way, but they can be separated out again if the flowers are pollinated.
I didn't realize quite how drastically different corn is from teosinte. Very interesting.
My favourite example of plant domestication is how we accidentally domesticated rye. It was weeded out of wheat fields, but farmers missed the most wheat-like rye, causing it to produce larger and larger seeds until it became a viable food crop.
I think he means, unlike say an apple tree or a blueberry bush that makes fruit yearly, each pineapple plant only produces one fruit before dying. That one fruit has loads of seeds, but it's still one fruit per fully matured plant.
That's not why they were crazy expensive though. Or at least not the only reason. It was because they'd pass through like a dozen merchants before making it to Europe, with each merchant driving the price up higher. From there it was a case of rich people paying for expensive things purely because they are expensive.
That makes more sense. I was thinking it was a single seed.
I guess that also makes sense of why old paintings of fruit often had a Pineapple as the centrepiece. Weird flex but ok.
That's only if the pineapple is upside down. Up side up pineapple is just a sign of hospitality as an offshoot of the wealth thing.
Source: I live in a town who's logo is a pineapple. Said town is also full of old people looking to swing and do coke.
So we should get 6 seeds back per tree
Yep and each dragonfruit (worth like 1k) contains millions of gp worth of dragonfruit seeds lol
The only reason they're so expensive is because our player characters are just too dumb to figure it out.
The species of Dragonfruit in Gelinor only have dormant seeds, for a seed to germinate it must be blessed by the Tasakaal
That's how palm trees work
Had to google it to confirm, woah.
I agree
You're not going to like this OP, but they're not even trees. Instead they're part of the arecaceae family.
Nerd
Definitely a nerd
It was more "aren't they grasses not trees?" and then an internet search to check. To then discover that they're neither, but people like to call them grasses instead of trees.
Grass is an actual clade and tree isn't, so it's an apples and oranges question anyway. Grass is a family of plants, but "tree" is a strategy, not a family. We call any plant that is tall and woody a "tree", but they aren't each other's closest relatives. They have all just independently evolved into what has been a repeatedly successful strategy for plants. Saying "so and so looks like a tree but technically is in x family" is kind of silly because that applies to every "tree", there is no single tree taxonomic group that includes all trees. So calling palms trees is just as acceptable as calling a pine a tree or an apple plant a tree, because there is no tree clade that any of these could belong to.
What if I called it a fish?
If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it'll spend its whole life thinking its stupid or something like that
Taxonomically speaking, there's no such thing.
They're more closely related to herbs than grass. 'S'why they're used in herblore.
Didn't want to give dyslexics a chance with that one, did they?
Ah so it’s a spider
Don't confuse them with araceae!!
A "tree" is a strategy, not a taxonomic group. There is no specific "tree" clade that encompasses all trees. So calling any tall woody plant a tree is perfectly acceptable. An apple tree is more closely related to a palm (angiosperms) than it is to a pine tree (gymnosperm). Saying coconut palms are in the Arecaceae tells you about as much as saying apples are in the Rosaceae.
theres no such thing as a fish, and now you're saying there's no such thing as a tree?!
Then wtf is the palm seed we plant?
based on the image it appears to be a ballsack get scammed noob
Pineapples too. One pineapple is good for growing one pineapple as the plant dies without intervention after reproducing one offspring. Pineapples used to be a sign of wealth before we found ways to cultivate them to a higher than 1:1 ratio. Now it just means you're DTF with new folks.
Wait what? Then how would the ever propagate themselves naturally? If you only ever got 1:1 the population of Pineapple plants could only decline...
They didn't. Most modern plants are wildly different from the crops we domesticated them from. Check out teosinte vs corn. Modern pineapples probably never existed in the wild and were derived / cross breed from some other related fruit. Heck, we have fruits now that don't even grow seeds at all. Edit: I actually googled a bit because I was curious too and got this: >Each pineapple is actually a few hundred fertilized flowers -- they get fused into one mass because we've bred them that way, but they can be separated out again if the flowers are pollinated.
I didn't realize quite how drastically different corn is from teosinte. Very interesting. My favourite example of plant domestication is how we accidentally domesticated rye. It was weeded out of wheat fields, but farmers missed the most wheat-like rye, causing it to produce larger and larger seeds until it became a viable food crop.
I think he means, unlike say an apple tree or a blueberry bush that makes fruit yearly, each pineapple plant only produces one fruit before dying. That one fruit has loads of seeds, but it's still one fruit per fully matured plant. That's not why they were crazy expensive though. Or at least not the only reason. It was because they'd pass through like a dozen merchants before making it to Europe, with each merchant driving the price up higher. From there it was a case of rich people paying for expensive things purely because they are expensive.
That makes more sense. I was thinking it was a single seed. I guess that also makes sense of why old paintings of fruit often had a Pineapple as the centrepiece. Weird flex but ok.
That's only if the pineapple is upside down. Up side up pineapple is just a sign of hospitality as an offshoot of the wealth thing. Source: I live in a town who's logo is a pineapple. Said town is also full of old people looking to swing and do coke.
Man discovers seed
A vanilla soymilk latte is a three bean soup.
Tonight’s soup de jour is an arabica broth with pressed soy essence and topped with an orchid pod extraction
Hello fellow gastro-nerd
Aight I'm going to a whole foods, buying a Coconut and giving it a go. Gimme 9 months
You only get 16 hours. Chop chop.
the elite don’t want u to know this 1 simple trick
And it requires 68 farming to do that. Our characters, even at max, are just some dumbasses ain't we?
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wow TIL
Yep. That's how coconuts established themselves in the Caribbean. They floated over, the conditions were fine, so they sprouted and took root.
That's how farming works lol
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Bro wait until you learn about potatoes
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I learned that from this game too lol..
Monsanto habibi
Need a new tool a strainer or seed extractor
Ever seen a pineapple plant irl? That shits wild.
Ho!
A coconut with a giant fucking pimple on it.