POV: you just got a good prescription of glasses/contacts.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2026
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they may be technically different, but me going through tree ID class in undergrad quickly realized that the variability of leaf shape within a tree species, and even within a specific tree, can make one species look almost exactly like a totally different species. much better to look at the morphology, buds, and bark than the leaves.
they're all beautiful though
Yes ! I'm learning trees right now. I am in awe in very little square and shaded pavement now (*_*)
One under-appreciated aspect of leaf design is that in addition to being able to spread out and absorb sunlight, they also need to be of a shape such that in a strong wind they tend to curl up on themselves and provide a minimum of wind resistance. Otherwise their collective sail effect would tend to uproot the tree. Fortunately, there are lots of beautiful ways to solve these related problems.
Basically me the first time I took shrooms, I could not get past how beautiful just regular old trees are and how I never realized despite them being all around us
Same, but with MDMA.
all around us
🥲
Same, but with the color red. Why would anyone do anything but grow red chard and then look at it??
The convergent evolution of lignin is so wild to me. Like some trees are as distantly related to each other, than we are to fungus.
I wish I had the brain power to identify trees or birds the way anyone can cars or motorcycles.
There are books about this, which you can study. Go outside, identify the trees in your neighborhood and with time you will learn to identify them without the book.
You can show me a picture of a bird or leaf a dozen times, I won't remember enough to tell it from other birds and trees. You show me a specific model car or motorcycle once and I can probably remember it forever.
I wonder if bird-brained people have the same experience traveling, doing a double-take every time they see something that don't exist back home.
Try two dozen times then. And stop talking yourself out of it. If I can learn to identify cars when I once was so absolutely indifferent to them, you can do birds trees. You’re the one standing in the way of yourself here.
Just Google lens a tree every now and then, then try to spot as many of them as you can in the area, repeating it's name each time.
Birds are a bit harder, but you can do it with patience.
Really well drawn white throated sparrow
Leaves are underrated.