Tuesday 5 November 2013

Non-Fruiting Cypress

Slowly slowly, catchee monkey.

You don't need to hitch a ride to conquer the world.  You can take it slow and steady, be the tortoise, not the hare.

So long as you live a long time, don't encourage other creatures to eat you, and drop a few successful seeds every year, you will do very nicely.  And you do...

You are a very successful, famous family of plants.  Cypresses without fruit grow very slowly, but life for an extraordinarily long time, becoming very, very large in the process.

Your numbers include the tallest trees (Coast Redwood), the most massive (Giant Sequoia) and the second widest (the Montezuma Cypress).

Some of your number live for thousands of years.

No comments:

Post a Comment