What Plants Hear
They sense the buzzing sounds of pollinators, the vibrations of the wind. The post What Plants Hear appeared first on Nautilus.
t is not the trees … that make a wood,” the author J.A. Baker once suggested, “but the shape and disposition of the remaining light, of the sky that descends between the trees.” Something similar may be true in relation to sound, because the forest also becomes apparent to many sentient creatures through the resonances in the spaces between the trees. The tap of raindrops on leaves, the clack of branches, and the rustle of vegetation shape our sense of what surrounds us. According to the botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger, the xylem and phloem that transport vital fluids inside trees may be especially long
