Once Prince Charles said that he had a chance to talk with plants - and they answered him. For such a statement, Charles was ridiculed, but the latest discoveries of researchers confirm: the prince's statements are justified.
Plants have long-term memory
Dr. Monica Galiano of the University of Western Australia led the study, which was published in the journal Oecologia. The object of research was bashful mimosa - a perennial herb. Together with her colleagues, Monica threw flowers of this plant from a height onto a shock-absorbing surface. For mimosa, such falls were not dangerous. Scientists chose this plant for their experiments not by chance: bashful mimosa has the ability to fold leaves in a special way if it is in danger, so it was very easy to observe its reaction.
Scientists needed to find out two points. First: will the plants be able to understand that this process does not threaten them? And the second: if so, can the mimosa remember this for a long time?
Having survived several falls, the plants began to react correctly and remembered that such "adventures" are not dangerous for them.
Scientists have used different plants of bashful mimosa and also varied over time. For example, some of the plants were not disturbed twenty-eight days after the first experiment. At the same time, the mimosa still remembered the lesson learned, since it did not react to the falls. But to other stimuli, she responded in her usual way.
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Plants Think Without Brains
Despite the fact that plants have neither the brain nor the nervous system inherent in other, more highly organized organisms, scientists have put forward a number of alternative hypotheses to explain this phenomenon. For example, the Economist magazine published an article in which the following assumption is made: information can be in the form of electrical signals and transmitted through the system of nutrient metabolism in plants.
Plants can feel
In 1996, a discovery was made, thanks to which many began to talk with indoor plants. Cleve Baxter worked for the CIA and was in charge of lie detectors. He took two dracaena plants and connected the leaves of one of them to this device. He told his assistant to trample another dracaena. After that, a polygraph attached to the plant that witnessed the massacre produced a graph that serves as an indicator of human fear.
The experiment was continued. Various people entered the laboratory, including the assistant who destroyed the plant. The polygraph did not record any reaction of the dracaena to the others, however, when a man appeared who trampled on a bush, the device again showed lines that indicated a feeling of fear. Apparently, the plant recognized the "killer". Baxter also found that his green test subject was happy after being watered and could even read human minds.
Plants read our thoughts
Baxter kept pondering what kind of unusual experiment he could do next. He considered burning the leaves of the plant to track the reaction. But as soon as Baxter had such an idea, the polygraph showed that the plant was frightened.
The experiments of the famous polygraph examiner were repeated by other researchers, including the Russian scientist Alexander Dubrov and the Frenchman Marcel Vogel.
Vogel's experiment with plants
This renowned scientist spent 27 years as a senior research scientist at IBM. During this period, he has patented more than a hundred different inventions. Including Vogel was engaged in plant research. He made startling discoveries and proved that plants can read our minds and are capable of telepathy over great distances. The following pattern also emerged: the more a person pays attention to a plant, the better it perceives his thoughts.
Vogel also observed how the plant reacts to the fact that its "brother" is injured: set on fire, cut off the leaves, or even pulled out of the ground. The researcher found that plants can even predict our actions, that is, they know how to look into the future.
Three identical plants
But a student in England conducted her own, moderately cruel, but very revealing experiment. She placed three identical indoor plants in favorable conditions for their existence, placing them on a windowsill and caring for them in the same way. However, she spoke words of hatred to one plant every day, confessed her love to another, and simply did not notice the third. Look at the video to see how it came out.
By the way, some modern advanced scientists are engaged in plant breeding, simply persuading them to change the way it is necessary for a person, for example, to bear fruit with larger and sweeter berries. Therefore, for a long time, a person should reconsider his attitude not only to the animal, but to the plant world, and indeed to think about how much he knows and understands about the environment, considering himself the king of nature …
