Did dodo birds go up the dodo tree?

The Tambalacoque tree,also known as the "dodo tree", was hypothesized by Stanley Temple to have been eaten from by Dodos, and only by passing through the digestive tract of the dodo could the seeds germinate; he claimed that the tambalacocque was now nearly extinct.

The Dodo birds possibly ate the fruit of the "dodo tree" not the tree itself.

Of course, the dodo bird is now long extinct.