10 Pieces of Evidence That Plants Are Smarter Than You Think

Though plants possess nothing even remotely like brains, they can nevertheless communicate, measure time, and even use camouflage. They may not be thinking in a way that we’d recognize, but our chlorophyll-saturated pals are certainly doing a lot more than sitting around splitting water molecules. Here are ten things plants do that look pretty damn smart — even to those of us over here in the Kingdom Animalia.

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When a plant is under attack it releases a gas which warns neighbouring plants to protect themselves.

In a new BBC Two series, Professor Iain Smith explains how the Earth’s development was driven by plants and how they have adapted for survival.