Trees store water in their ‘food tubes’, world-first research finds
by FIONA MACDONALD
New research has shown for the first time that trees don’t just move water up and down like we previously thought - they can also move it across into their ‘food tubes’ to store it for a not-so-rainy day.
Scientists from the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at the University of Western Sydney in Australia have used fluorescent dyes to map the flow of water through trees, and found that the direction of movement isn’t just vertical, its also horizontal.
