r/confidentlyincorrect • u/Maleficent-AE21 • 2d ago

Understanding photosynthesis, trees, and conservation of mass.

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u/Hattkake 2d ago

They eat the CO2 through the dirt with their root mouths then? I don't get it.

<goes googling>

Hold the phone, trees absorb carbon dioxide through the underside of the leaf!? So during winter trees are just freeloading slackers!? I knew it! Trees are bastards!

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u/NickyTheRobot 2d ago

So during winter trees are just freeloading slackers!?

Not the coniferous ones.

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u/Hattkake 2d ago

True. Pines and firs are ok. They're a prickly bunch though.

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u/Magenta_Logistic 2d ago

Much like humans, trees can be divided into two groups: the lazy ones, and the pricks.