kai_ramirez38•10d agoProlific Poster

I just read that some plants can actually hear running water

I was looking up stuff about pea plants for my little garden box and found this old study from 2017. It said that the roots of pea seedlings can grow toward the sound of water flowing through a pipe, even if the soil is dry. They played them a recording of a stream. I always thought plants just grew toward light or nutrients, not sounds. It makes me wonder how much we still don't know about what they can sense. Has anyone else come across weird plant facts like this that made you stop and think?

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finley_smith10d ago

Remember reading about some trees in Africa that warn each other about giraffes. When one gets nibbled, it pumps a bitter chemical into its leaves, and the nearby trees smell it and do the same thing. Makes you wonder if my sad basil plant on the windowsill is trying to tell the others something.

joseph_bailey10d ago

Wild, right? Plants might even talk to each other.

ivan46210d ago

I read about that study from the University of Western Australia. They found plants release chemicals into the soil when they're stressed. Other plants nearby can pick up on those signals and get ready for trouble themselves. It's not talking like we do, but it's a real form of communication. It makes you look at a forest or even a backyard garden in a whole new way. The natural world is way more connected than we usually realize.