I'm confused: you wrote, "...the emergence of the most successful plants on earth, the monocots, or flowering plants." Eudicots are also flowering plants. Did you mean specifically monocots, or both monocots and eudicots that are clumped together as angiosperms? I've read that angiosperms are the most successful, which would include eudicots, and dicots. But botanical information is always updating and I may have missed some distinction here.
I'm confused: you wrote, "...the emergence of the most successful plants on earth, the monocots, or flowering plants." Eudicots are also flowering plants. Did you mean specifically monocots, or both monocots and eudicots that are clumped together as angiosperms? I've read that angiosperms are the most successful, which would include eudicots, and dicots. But botanical information is always updating and I may have missed some distinction here.
My magnolias are a long way from joining the party, but they will before too long,
Your tree is also about 400 times as big as our little guy.