Growing home
One might use these rootlets to form living walls in which a house could be constructed from...
one might even create a seed that grew this tree in the form of a house. This would be a truely green technology. Imagine a seed foundation. Rather than laying concrete one might lay an enormouse seed that would sprout walls and eventually a roof either made of well oriented leaves or connected branches growing from the living wooden walls.
Seoul commune Korean Arcitecture of mass studies
one might build entire cities out of trees
baobab or communities in huge trees
Some Ficus trees have canopies that grow up to 4 acres. The natural pleaching ability of the tree allows a living architecture and the Baobab is said to live upwards of 3,000 years
Using these ideas as a base with enough knowledge of the genetic makeup of plants and trees one might genetically engineer living tree homes and "cities" that provide all the food one might need. Plants and trees have beeen shown to grow better when attention is payed to them them which proves a kind of consciousness. Perhaps if one quieted themselves and listened to the trees and "spoke" with them one might eventually be given such a house in the future.
With the bark a composite of evergreen cactus, with leaves the width of a palm (about 2 feet) and length of a platano (about four feet long). One might tap this photosynthetic energy production and focus it genetically into a liquid grain, legume, nut, seed, and fruit matrix that was connected to one of these
"pitcher plants" Nepenthes truncata or maxima or a rafflesia. Plus connected to the sensitivity plant Mimosa Pudica. One might have a combination tree plant that could move a liquid grain, liquid legume, liquid nut, liquid seed, and liquid fruit concoction to ones lips or with the rafflesia it would be a basin to collect juice. With the right combination of nutrients one might create a concoction that went into the body and produced an efficient "waste product" akin to a form of respiration. Where one might give off "waste throught the skin in the form of... bioluminescent. If one might naturally genetically engineer (or speak to the trees) redwood DNA or Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) dna one would have a food producing shelter that could live past 3000 years be 500 feet tall 4 acres around and produce this most efficient liquid or even good fruit.
Now for the meat eaters… One might look into photosynthetic construction of specific proteins and direct these liquid proteins into an easily digestable solution.
Sensitivity plant Mimosa pudica-door, window leaf and nepenthes decanter movement
Giant bamboo Dendrocalamus giganteus - rapid growth, chambered insulated walls
California Kelp Macrocystis pyrifera - rapid growth nearly 2 feet a day
Cactus opuntias Lophophore Williamsii-peyote saguaro-Carnegiea gigantean- green "bark" broad branch inflorescence, drought tolerance
Redwood Sequoia sempervirens -age, height, rot resistance soft padded bark for bedding
Ficus religiosa- crown and root spread, natural pleaching ability
Bristlecone pine Pinus longaeva -age
Cork-tree Phellodendron - soft padding for under foot
Cinnamon Cinnamomum verum- aromatic bark
Baobab-age, breadth
Chilean alerce Fitzroya cupressoides dated at 3622 years old
Kudzu Pueraria Montana-rapid growth rate 1 foot a day
Grasses- rapid fruit production
Feel free to leave comments about any tree or plant qualities anyone is aware of...
Plants and trees have beeen shown to grow better when attention is payed to them which proves a kind of consciousness. Perhaps if one quieted themselves and listened to the trees and "spoke" with the trees one would have an easier time "bioengineering" this kind of building in the future.
Maybe a group willing to research this concept and form a project to set the groundwork so this idea becomes reality. I know it might take along time to get somthing like this into the works. Hopefully, that much sooner with shared interest. Thanks for your interest.
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