To start of the tree in question is the more shrub like structure in front of the other tree in the picture, not the more conventional looking tree in the background.
An 'albino' redwood is a redwood tree which is unable to produce chlorophyll, and has white needles instead of the normal green. It survives by obtaining sugar through the connections between its roots and those of neighboring non albino redwood(s), usually the parent tree from whose base it has sprouted. Sap exchange through roots is a general phenomenon among redwoods. About 400 are known. They can be found in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, San Francisco botanical gardens, and The Santa Lucia Preserve, with eleven trees in the first. The exact locations are not publicized to protect the rare trees. They reach a maximum height of about 20 m (66 ft). Other conifers lack the ability to graft their roots, so 'albino' mutants of other species do not survive to become sizable trees.
The trees were important to Native Americans and were recorded in their legends. For example, the Pomo people used them in their cleansing ceremonies.
Albino redwoods are generally regarded as parasitic plants, but as of 2016 one researcher speculates that they are supported by other trees for their role in storing toxic heavy metals. Albinos apparently accumulate more metals than normal trees because of defective stomata, which cause them to lose more water through transpiration, forcing them to compensate by taking up more water through their roots.
On the surface, it sounds like these trees have a pretty sweet arrangement, but the truth is this freeloader strategy is not without its challenges. Even when they're feeding off the healthiest of trees, many albino redwoods are weak and malnourished, which is why so many of them look like dying Christmas trees.
Ten cases are known of chimeric redwoods that have a mosaic of albino and normal tissues. Only a single chimeric redwood is known to produce cones. Formerly threatened by the Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit rail development, it has since been replanted.
Picture of a bigger one https://www.treehugger.com/thmb/V8fOGyCvf5V6QlSXDOsUFyJtiT0=/750x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/__opt__aboutcom__coeus__resources__content_migration__mnn__images__2015__04__Humboldt-Redwoods-State-Park-Albino-59c5798b06264b68a8db15d18c763382.jpg
Video of the trees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os5mZQLpe98
And article some of info was sourced from https://www.treehugger.com/the-mysterious-world-of-albino-redwood-trees-4867273
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starting to get annoyed with people saying "this sounds like it was written by chatGPT" about every piece of bad writing. it's a stale and unoriginal criticism, please think of new things to say or I'm gonna assume you're the chatbot
I remember that fad when people would just write bad random humor and call it an AI written script for whatever show, and none of the mistakes were anything that an AI would really make, but just what someone with bad humor would think is funny.
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Fellas, did you know that you can have Spotify without ads for free on your personal computer?
Step 1: make a free Spotify account
Step 2: add uBlock Origin to your web browser (you should have this already tbh)
Step 3: Use Spotify in your web browser (not the program)
That's all, it works like a charm
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Does spotify free let you pick music? Cause the app one doesn't let free users listen to the music they picked. Yes, it's weird as fuck. It's plays a bunch of other stuff.
New liberal bullshit someone has made up just dropped: Someone told me that the Red Army in WW2 were so poorly organised they barely ate.
Average Soviet soldier intermittent fasting like :swole-doge:
New liberal bullshit someone has made up just dropped: Someone told me that the Red Army in WW2 were so poorly organised they barely ate.
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If that were true they wouldn't have won WWII, production and logistics are two of the largest determinants of who wins a war, especially when armies are of approximately equal strength.
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I wouldn't be surprised if there were logistical issues in the biggest counteroffensive in the history of the world.
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Just got stopped and lectured to by the cops for the first time in my life :data-laughing:
Was caught riding my bicycle on a sidewalk where there was a painted bike lane on side of the road
Pulled over to stop me and everything
The cops are not happy with me but that's okay I'll still keep riding my bike on the sidewalk anyway :sicko-biker:
It was a quiet residential street with literally no one but me and the cop car in sight. Made me easy to pick out, I guess
The funny thing is I usually ride on the painted lane on that street, ever since it was put there. This time I heard a car coming up the road right behind me as I came to the start of the bike lane and didn't want to pull right in front of it. Turns out that was the cops :michael-laugh:
I got a lecture once for jaywalking :angery:
She fucking put on her lights to stop my friend and I. We actually didn't turn around until she got out to yell at us, because why would you "pull over" a pedestrian with your emergency lights lol.
Rough to be a neo-nazi who adores spree shooters and is a diehard incel transphobe and you do a murder to get your name in the news but the rest of your alt-right comrade instantly disown you and say you were really antifa or a trans person all along. Can't catch a break.
Would be genuinely interested what they think a out being disowned like that.
It's so wild, they pump each other up on /pol/ and 8chan like fellating spree shooters and hyping up their own shooting. Then they do it. And the very same people turn around and say "um, actually, he was a leftist and part of antifa all along."