[antcas]

> Then there are mangroves whose trunk flattens out at the base; these trees stem from a branch at a low elevation — and they walk!...Is this tree really walking? When we walk, our physical mass moves as a whole. But no displacement of matter occurs with mangroves; the way they grow just makes it look that way. The “movement” is the growing process, four to five meters a year. The branch experiences necrosis and vanishes at one end, while it keeps developing on the other.

[ncmncm]

This turns out to have been wholly fabricated by tour guides.

Appealing story, though.

BTW, if you like that sort of thing, https://cantrip.org/slow.pdf

[teruakohatu]

> BTW, if you like that sort of thing

Thank you for sharing that. It was a fun read.

[Cerium]

I suppose the mangroves walk as much as a glider in Conway's game of life glides.

[glenstein]

I was having brain freeze trying to understand what exactly was meant, but this is a brilliant way of putting it.

[djmips]

But not even that much I don't think. But perhaps you are thinking along the lines of a whole forest moving. Trees dying on one side, born on the other. Over a long timescale the forest 'walks'.

[Cerium]

How is that different than a horizontal tree growing on one end and rotting on the other?

[mmtauqir]

Well it does say "poetic" in the name of the book, which I own, and I would say "the way they grow just makes it look that way" would definitely poetically count as walking.