but isn’t that just the most efficient arrangement in a crowded forest where each tree elbows its neighbours out of the way for whatever sunlight they can get?

why waste energy in making branches and leaves low down when they’ll forever be in the shade?

I have read of an African folk tale where baobab trees were the result of some deity pulling them out of the ground and punting then back in upside down.

You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about

Toy Story tree.

Bonsai end game