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mixed HN was intrigued but not uniformly convinced. Many commenters used the story as a springboard into plant hydraulics, botany, and computational biology, while skeptics questioned how the result squares with known maximum tree heights and whether other constraints, like structural strength, are the real limit. — latest discussion,
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