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Re:Why trees can't grow taller than around 100 metres by solox3 on Saturday January 19, 2013 @04:56PM (#5084935)
>>Sugars accelerate as they move

That's no way to describe the diffusion gradient.

Also, this paper does not cover all of Plantae, so for all we know, other Embryophytes may be limited in height by an entirely different factor.

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Re:Why trees can't grow taller than around 100 metres by pvaldes on Saturday January 19, 2013 @06:38PM (#5085269)
The creatures that we call trees, and the Earth had experimented with a lot of different types of trees, are in fact much higher if we count the roots.
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Re:Why trees can't grow taller than around 100 metres by freiheit on Sunday January 20, 2013 @02:31AM (#5086296)
Yes, but the tallest trees (California redwood) have shallow root systems (a couple meters). Are there trees commonly over 100 meters counting the roots?
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