How trees go to the toilet

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If you've ever wondered how trees evacuate their excrement, we might think it is dead leaves and dead wood or oxygen, well not exactly:

"Plant feces would be represented, depending Neish, by phenolic compounds. Free form, these compounds would be toxic and plants would get rid of by storing it on the walls of their vessels, by polymerization in an inert form, that of the lignin.Vascular cells are dead, this storage has the dual advantage of being harmless to plants and to impart a mechanical strength which allows them to achieve large dimension.”

F. Hallé.

Here an equilibrist transposition of the plant to the animal:
"Solutions to problems of excrement. An animal which stores his excrement
would also be able to go very high."