On Dec 11, 5:38*am, Bill who putters wrote:
"The idea that plants basically have nerves a conclusion that grows
out of hard-to-interpret observations of electrical activity in plant
tissue has ignited a thunderstorm of its own among plant scientists in
recent years.
The use of the word intelligence (with or without swarm) simply
humanizes (or animalizes, since they talk about swarms) the situation,
says David Robinson or the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Such
silly terminology, in his words, reduces serious plant science to the
level of esoterics.
However, he s not disputing the ability of plants to solve complicated
strategic problems. Of course, he says, it s well known that roots
have cognitive abilities. "

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene...ption/Rooting_...
swarm_intelligence_in_plants

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Bill *S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden

"Always tell the truth and you don't have to remember anything."
--Mark Twain.

Plant cells communicate with each other, but they do so with
hormones, not nervous impulses. A terminal vegetative bud,
for example, produces auxins which tell lower vegetative buds
not to grow and associated root tips to grow to help feed the
new growth.