#science #botany #communication

Plants talk

https://www.sciencealert.com/plants-really-do-scream-weve-simply-never-heard-them-until-now

It seems like Roald Dahl may have been onto something after all: if you hurt a plant, it screams.

Well, sort of. Not in the same way you or I might scream. Rather, they emit popping or clicking noises in ultrasonic frequencies outside the range of human hearing that increase when the plant becomes stressed.