ScienceDaily: Clever Plants ‘Chat’ Over Their Own Network
RTFA: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/07092…
Many plants form internal communications networks and are able to exchange information efficiently. Chat networkMany herbal plants such as strawberry, clover, reed and ground elder naturally form networks. Individual plants remain connected with each other for a certain period of time by means of runners. These connections enable the plants to share information with each other via internal channels. They are therefore very similar to computer networks. But what do plants want to chat to each other about?
Insane. Plants can be like animals… in the same way that fungus is marginally more animal-like than single-celled organisms.
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