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“Fleshing” Things Out: Early Movement – For the Earliest of trees, the use of Guard Cells in movement was the only option. It is theoretically possible that during the stages of a sapling, the tree could retain the guard cells on its stem rather than undergoing lignification (turning into wood) as it grew to adulthood and it is therefore believed that this is how self-locomotion probably came about. The advantages of such phenomena are such: The guard cells, although normally only used for open and closure of the stomata are the one pseudo-muscle substance that could possibly propagate into a more advanced configuration.

  Gymnosperms, the group to which all Umbral life ultimately radiated (Conifers in General) from over billions of years, would usually undergo lignification in the stomata of their stem in progression to adulthood as stated above. Although, to provide structural support for the tree, they had to lignificate to some degree. The inner trunk undergoes lignification fully while retaining a semblance of flexibility while the outer layers never develop through the process and remain a type of stomata.

  The continual circling overhead of the sun as it passes slowly across the sky stimulates the guard cells to contract at certain times where the light levels become lower when the sun is lower on the horizon. Since there is more atmosphere to pass through at its lowest point of counterclockwise circling, less light reaches the cells causing them to contract as light levels drop and the use of CO2 in photosynthesis decreases. A sort of 99 hour pseudo-day if you will.

  Over time as the trees have learned that they must move to follow the sun and escape the ever encroaching darkness, that the best way to do so was to use thousands of modified guard cells interlinked with each other as with their stoma, flexing and contracting together as the sun dictates. In this way, following the circling of the sun, the trees that move of their own volition are ever so slow as the movement of the sun dictates when they can loosen and contract their bodies. Movement becomes meticulous and well thought out, and a brain is needed as a result. And as such, a tiny world seems ever so much bigger.

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“Fleshing” Things Out: Early Movement – For the Earliest of trees, the use of Guard Cells in movement was the only option. It is theoretically possible that during the stages of a sapling, the tree could retain the guard cells on its stem rather than undergoing lignification (turning into wood) as it grew to adulthood and it is therefore believed that this is how self-locomotion probably came about. The advantages of such phenomena are such: The guard cells, although normally only used for open and closure of the stomata are the one pseudo-muscle substance that could possibly propagate into a more advanced configuration.

  Gymnosperms, the group to which all Umbral life ultimately radiated (Conifers in General) from over billions of years, would usually undergo lignification in the stomata of their stem in progression to adulthood as stated above. Although, to provide structural support for the tree, they had to lignificate to some degree. The inner trunk undergoes lignification fully while retaining a semblance of flexibility while the outer layers never develop through the process and remain a type of stomata.

  The continual circling overhead of the sun as it passes slowly across the sky stimulates the guard cells to contract at certain times where the light levels become lower when the sun is lower on the horizon. Since there is more atmosphere to pass through at its lowest point of counterclockwise circling, less light reaches the cells causing them to contract as light levels drop and the use of CO2 in photosynthesis decreases. A sort of 99 hour pseudo-day if you will.

  Over time as the trees have learned that they must move to follow the sun and escape the ever encroaching darkness, that the best way to do so was to use thousands of modified guard cells interlinked with each other as with their stoma, flexing and contracting together as the sun dictates. In this way, following the circling of the sun, the trees that move of their own volition are ever so slow as the movement of the sun dictates when they can loosen and contract their bodies. Movement becomes meticulous and well thought out, and a brain is needed as a result. And as such, a tiny world seems ever so much bigger.