Cloud Forest Canopy
The crown of a massive “Broccoli Tree” (possibly Ceiba pentandra) emerges from the surrounding epiphyte-laden canopy of the cloud forest, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
Peering upward into the branch system of the tree, I was reminded of how nerve cells appear under the microscope, or at a slightly larger scale, how bronchial tubes bifurcate and eventually terminate into alveoli. Though trees and lungs are obviously very distantly related in an evolutionary sense, perhaps there is a common problem solved by these structures that is related to transport of substances through tissues.
Cloud Forest Canopy
The crown of a massive “Broccoli Tree” (possibly Ceiba pentandra) emerges from the surrounding epiphyte-laden canopy of the cloud forest, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
Peering upward into the branch system of the tree, I was reminded of how nerve cells appear under the microscope, or at a slightly larger scale, how bronchial tubes bifurcate and eventually terminate into alveoli. Though trees and lungs are obviously very distantly related in an evolutionary sense, perhaps there is a common problem solved by these structures that is related to transport of substances through tissues.