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Research has shown that beneath every forest and wood there is a complex underground web of roots, fungi and bacteria helping to connect trees and plants to one another.
This subterranean social network, nearly 500 million years old, has become known as the "wood wide web".
Now, an international study has produced the first global map of the "mycorrhizal fungi networks" dominating this secretive world.
Trees, from the mighty redwoods to slender dogwoods, would be nothing without their microbial sidekicks. Millions of species of fungi and bacteria swap nutrients between soil and the roots of trees, forming a vast, interconnected web of organisms throughout the woods. Now, for the first time, scientists have mapped this “wood wide web” on a global scale, using a database of more than 28,000 tree species living in more than 70 countries.
originally posted by: pheonix358
They need to go further.
A single tree does not have a brain as such and we consider them as non-intelligent but this type of research brings back the question of ... Is The Forest Aware.
Current science would laugh at this concept ... but what do they really know? They haven't even found the soul as yet.
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originally posted by: pheonix358
They need to go further.
A single tree does not have a brain as such and we consider them as non-intelligent but this type of research brings back the question of ... Is The Forest Aware.
Current science would laugh at this concept ... but what do they really know? They haven't even found the soul as yet.
P
So as long as you think of pooping in general terms, plants do it! They also do things like breathing, sweating, peeing, and even farting. Who knew?
He pointed to a study of African acacia trees, which shows how they release a chemical when giraffes start eating them, as evidence of how trees communicate. The chemical released drifts through the air warning other trees of the danger and they in turn begin producing toxic chemicals before the giraffe has reached them.
Some trees might have sex every three to five years and go the toilet once a year. “They have stuff they need to get rid of so they pump their waste into their leaves. When you are walking through a forest in winter time you are walking through tree toilet paper.”
My maple trees definitely pee...