dannoffs [he/him]

According to OP’s definition:

Woody ✅

Secondary growth (feathers) ✅

Not a monocot ✅

Fuck it, birds are trees.

There’s no way you actually read that.

It’s literally a blog post of one person’s opinion which concludes without a definitive statement, that it’s not settled if they’re trees or not, and then links to a page “for further reading” that categorizes them under trees.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C3&q=coconut+tree

Someone should tell the authors of these hundreds of papers then.

This is a reminder that there is no universally accepted botanical definition of tree. It is also a reminder that usage supersedes definition, so pointing out that coconut palm trees aren’t “trees” makes you both annoying and wrong.