This could very well be it. I highly doubt two separate trees merged and cellular connections formed to meld into one tree. It would be like two organisms forming a super organism. Combining. When has anyone seen that ever?
You can graft a cutting of one tree species onto another, and both will grow normally. People do that to get trees with two different colors of flowers, or to grow multiple types of fruit on the same tree. Plants are weird.
This actually happens all the time in nature - it’s called inosculation or natural grafting, where trees of the same species (and sometimes different species) can fuse their vascular systems together and litterally become connected organisms sharing nutrients and water through their merged tissues.
You can combine apple and pear trees into one or put a tomato plant on top of a potato. This definitely isn’t uncommon.
And also in nature different species often work together in some kind of super organism. Just think of our gut bacteria, orchids growing on trees, symbiosis between mushrooms and trees etc.
Could be a limb from itself that just happens to graft itself to itself.
This could very well be it. I highly doubt two separate trees merged and cellular connections formed to meld into one tree. It would be like two organisms forming a super organism. Combining. When has anyone seen that ever?
You can graft a cutting of one tree species onto another, and both will grow normally. People do that to get trees with two different colors of flowers, or to grow multiple types of fruit on the same tree. Plants are weird.
This actually happens all the time in nature - it’s called inosculation or natural grafting, where trees of the same species (and sometimes different species) can fuse their vascular systems together and litterally become connected organisms sharing nutrients and water through their merged tissues.
People do it with fruit trees all the time. As the other commenter said, it’s called grafting.
You can combine apple and pear trees into one or put a tomato plant on top of a potato. This definitely isn’t uncommon.
And also in nature different species often work together in some kind of super organism. Just think of our gut bacteria, orchids growing on trees, symbiosis between mushrooms and trees etc.
Trees do that all the time. Usually within a single species but in some cases with other species.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28256439-the-hidden-life-of-trees has lots of info about this.
sorta the basis for all eukaryotic life
A weapon to surpass metal gear…