I did some light research and asked AI, which said it would be extremely dangerous. But come on, it wouldn’t be that dangerous, right? We evolved from animals that lived in the ocean.

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    And concerning trees, they have an immune system as well: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature05286

    Sort of, but not on the same scale as us. Generally, the default for anything not a vertebrate is to have innate immunity systems like inflammation, but no adaptive response. Although, there are parallels to white blood cells that have separately evolved in certain other branches of the animal kingdom.

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      Sure, I mean trees and humans are very different species and have different inner workings. Though I’m pretty sure it’s worthy of the name immune system. Plants have specific proteins to handle things, and I believe they can even send chemicals through the organism to respond. It’s a very different kind, though.
      I mean the entire discussion is a bit far-fetched… Trees don’t have blood as we do either. Or hands to inject themselves with seawater…