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Trees
A tree is a winner in the great survival race,
Sucking up available sunlight with the utmost haste.
Their canopy(1) blocking the sun for other plants to grow,
That’s why farmers cleared them out, to them they were a foe.
But could you imagine a planet without a single tree?
Why, it won’t take very long for you to plainly see,
That trees are beautiful, cool the planet and provide lumber seemingly for us.
They also suck up carbon dioxide and give off oxygen, now there’s a really big plus.
Trees are like humans, they have a great desire to pass on their valuable genes.
To accomplish this, they’ve evolved a most ingenious and practical scheme.
Use wind, insects, birds and animals to move the seed and pollen around,
And you can reproduce, without so much as moving one inch on the ground.
But how to get them interested was the most clever and difficult trick.
There had to be a way to attract these critters and make them come quite quick.
Nature evolved some more and it came up with something tasty and attractive called the fruit and the flower.
Now the critters would unwittingly disperse the tree’s seed and pollen, now there’s an example of beneficial power.
Other types of trees kept things simple depending solely upon wind to get their pollen around,
Still eager to spread their valuable genes, but doing so without making a scene and barely a sound.
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