Christopher Berry
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But I do like going into botanical gardens and looking at the plants and trying to work out how they grow, why they grow, and what are the analogies to these really ancient plants.
And so that there are analogous things, but there's not the same thing.
So the Wollemi Pine is a beautiful tree, which three of my colleagues have in their gardens growing at various different heights.
It's one of an example, like the Dawn Redwood and various other things, of a plant which has a morphology which you can sort of see in the past.
It's related to Agathys and to Araucaria and various other types of coniferous trees.
From my point of view, it was discovered in Australia relatively recently and it's been cultivated and spread around the world.
From my point of view, I like it because it's an example.
I've been looking for years and years using this analogy example for a vertical upright trunk.
which just has small leafy branches coming off it to see how far a tree can get that just has small leafy branches.
And it does that.
It produces small leafy branches.
And I had a photograph of one from the park in Cardiff on my phone.
And I thought, I've got to go back and see that because it was about two meters tall when I took the photograph.
I just went back to see it, and it's now eight metres tall.
It's absolutely gorgeous.
And with these leafy branches, eventually some of those branches will start turning into subsidiary trunks and growing upright, and they'll do all sorts of interesting things.
But at the moment, it's a really nice analogy for...
The sort of early archaeopterist trees that we have from 317 million years ago.
A coffee would be gorgeous, thank you.
I need to get out of here because I do not want them to see me.
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