Christmas tree question-How did the evergreen become the number one tree that stays green all year long?
How can all the other trees die and the evergreen tree stays green all year long and hiw did the evergreen tree become the tree we decorate for Christmas time, why is this tree so special?
The ‘christmas tree’, or scots pine to give them their proper name (although blue spruce is also sometimes used, though not as commonly), is used as our symbol of christmas because christmas is a pagan festival, not a chrsitian one, as the christians would love to have you believe (they usurped it, as they did easter and every other festival they could find in order to convert the pagans of other countries to christianity).
The evergreen tree is viewed as a symbol of life, especially in the winter time, when it remains green where all about it has ‘died’ (although we know it hasn’t – this was how it appeared to early residents of europe) only to be miraculously ‘reborn’ in the spring.
As to how the evegreen tree came about, I guess that there must have been some evolutionary advantage to it – they mainly grow in extreme longituides (ie north and south), and thus they must endure the long winters without much sun (or in some places, none at all. To survive this, I assume they extended the time in which their leaves remained green to maximise the collection of sunlight, until eventually they stayed green all year round.
Thuja Green Giant Evergreen Tree