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Survival Skillset

Lesson 5 of 12

Water from trees and plants

35 min

Trees and plants move enormous amounts of water. Every leaf on a large tree is the end of a pipe that runs down to the roots. Some of that water can be reached: rain held in rot holes and forks, sap rising in spring, the liquid inside certain tropical vines and stems. None of it is a big supply on its own, and some of it comes with real risks.…

In this lesson

  • Tree hollows and the drinking tube
  • Finding them
  • Getting the water out
  • Common mistakes
  • Birch and other tree sap
  • When
  • How
  • Water vines in tropical forests
  • Water from bamboo
  • Banana and plantain stump well
  • Coconuts
  • Green versus brown

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