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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•10 months agoTechnically Lepidodendron wasn’t a tree, it was a fern. A fern that had bark and grew to 100 feet tall, but a fern nonetheless.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•10 months agoLycophytes aren’t ferns. Also tree ferns - not trees, but superficially resemble them - still exist. At the same time, the largest extant lycophytes are maybe several tens of cm large, with most being far smaller.
Technically Lepidodendron wasn’t a tree, it was a fern. A fern that had bark and grew to 100 feet tall, but a fern nonetheless.
Lycophytes aren’t ferns.
Also tree ferns - not trees, but superficially resemble them - still exist.
At the same time, the largest extant lycophytes are maybe several tens of cm large, with most being far smaller.