depressing story

[chris155]

so i was out wakeskating today and i stuck my first kickflip which is good, but for the rest of the day i didn't stick anymore after that

[McLOVIN]

at least you got the kicky! props

[knox]

"every chicken has a bone in it that will inturupt a fine meal with coughing spazems and possible suffication"

Some Guy

[Michael Manzer]

The leaves of evrgreens have a thick, green outer layer to protect them from low temperatures.


A Silver Fir shoot showing three successive years of retained leaves
In botany, an evergreen plant is a plant that has leaves year round. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose all their foliage for part of the year, becoming bare and leafless.
Leaf persistence in evergreen plants may vary from only just over a year, up to a maximum of 45 years in Great Basin Bristlecone Pine Pinus longaeva.[1] However, very few species show leaf persistence of over 5 years.


A Southern live oak in winter
One additional special case exists in Welwitschia, an African gymnosperm plant which produces only two leaves, which grow continuously throughout the plant's life but gradually wear away at the apex, giving about 20–40 years' persistence of leaf tissue.
[edit]Reasons for being evergreen or deciduous
Deciduous trees shed their leaves for a reason--usually as an adaptation to a cold season or a dry season, when carrying leaves may become a liability. In wet tropical regions, however, there is no reason for being deciduous, so most rainforest plants are evergreens, replacing their leaves gradually throughout the year as the leaves age and fall. Maple trees, for instance, are considered deciduous trees, but some species in the Southern Asia and the Mediterranean region are evergreen.
Species growing in seasonally arid climates may be either evergreen or deciduous. Many warm temperate climate plants are also evergreen. In cool temperate climates, fewer plants are evergreen, with a predominance of conifers, as few evergreen angiosperms can tolerate severe cold below about -25 °C.
In areas where there is a reason for being deciduous, being evergreen is usually an adaptation to low nutrient levels. Deciduous trees lose nutrients whenever they lose their leaves, and they must replenish these nutrients from the soil to build new leaves. When few nutrients are available, evergreen plants have an advantage, even though their leaves and needles must be able to withstand cold and/or drought, and are thus less efficient at photosynthesis[citation needed]. In warmer areas, species such as some pines and cypresses grow on poor soils and disturbed ground. In Rhododendron, a genus with many broadleaf evergreens, several species grow in mature forests but are usually found on highly acidic soil where the nutrients are less available to plants. In taiga or boreal forests, it is too cold for the organic matter in the soil to decay rapidly, so the nutrients in the soil are less available to plants, thus favouring evergreens.
In temperate climates, evergreens can reinforce their own survival; evergreen leaf and needle litter has a higher carbon-nitrogen ratio than deciduous leaf litter, contributing to a higher soil acidity and lower soil nitrogen content. These conditions favour the growth of more evergreens and make it more difficult for deciduous plants to persist. In addition, the shelter provided by existing evergreen plants can make it easier for other evergreen plants to survive cold and/or drought.[2][3][4]

[Evan71]

chris155, thanks for wasting 14 seconds of my life with this post

[chris155]

[Evan71]

chris155, no biggy i landed my first kicky to. And then i stuck another

congrats man.

[t-rex]

Michael Manzer, i have always been wondering about those trees