EUPHONY LIVES OF TREES
The trees have never revealed their wisdom. Their wisdom of euphony lives as a big group of friends. They live for each other. They don’t walk but their roots do travels in search for other roots and intertwine with them. Parent trees live together with their children. Nothing they steal away from each other. For cuddles they long. Close to each other they wish to stay.
TREES USE PERFUME TOO
A jasmine scent they have. Your smell whispers something about you to others both consciously and subconsciously. Aroma is like a string pulling silently two people together. What is your favourite scent? Methyl Jasmonate, the enchanted perfume brand, trees use to have chit chat with each other. It is their weapon to battle against their predators. When it diffuses in through their stomata, it gets converted into the water soluble jasmonic acid.
One morning, a hearty breakfast out of a leaf, a hungry caterpillar is taking. When. Changes start to present in the tissues of leafs’ damaged site. Electric signals just as human tissue, their tissues send out. Though not a milliseconds transmission like human signals travels. In an hour before the scent compounds reach the leaf, the caterpillar still lucky enough to enjoy its meal. However, when their perfume is released, spoilt its tasty breakfast. Poor caterpillar.
The scent compound disperse quickly in air that can only be detected within range of about 100 yards. As long as the trees keep wearing this perfume, a specialized distress call is unnecessary to mount a defence against predatory species. It would find out the chemical distress call. It knows then some kind of attack is taking place. And it is time for the retreat.
TREE’S DELIVARY MEN
Trees do have their own delivery man. The fungi.
They are the most trustworthy men who pass letters and nutrients from one tree to others through the chemicals. These men work in their uniform made up of mycelium, a mass of thin thread. With fine and hair like tips of tree’s roots, they join. Fungi and trees have this, a close mutualistic symbiotic relationship.
Fungi’s thin filaments penetrate into the ground which operate like fibre optic Internet cables. Take one teaspoon of forest soil, contains many miles of those hyphae in it. It is Earth’s natural internet comes before the humanmade. A secret underground network, mycorrhizal network, to alert the trees when an attack of insects, drought and other dangers happens.
You might wonder how much these loyal men are getting paid for their work. Don’t worry. Trees feed them more than enough.
Lets read the letter trees send out to each other.
“ MY dear friends,
They are coming. The beetles are coming to destroy our home. Take your weapons. Lets all be prepare and stick together to fight them back.”
This mythic relationship going around in the realm of forest, Suzanne Simard of the University of British Columbia have discovered.
After they received the message, trees will prepare themselves for the crisis. A change in their form, structure or function will take place. A tree could change its function by increasing levels of toxins and repellents in its tissues to deter pests. More airborne compounds that attract natural enemies of particular pest also they produce.
TREES DON’T KNOW CLASSIFICATIONS.
Simard also discovered that different tree species are in harmony touch with one another. While the loners might seem healthy but they might be lost in contact with what is happening around them. In the realm of forest, trees from several meters away with shrubs and grasses, everyone are hooked up to one. Greediness is absent here in this realm. They share their information and nutrients. Unhealthy one do get support and nourishment from its friends.
Certain stressed and dying tree even pass resources such as nitrogen and phosphorus to their neighbour before they die. Sometimes, deeply connected trees walk into their death together.
In farm fields, in silence live the vegetation. There is no ground to grow up with their wisdom. It is due to selective breeding which cause plants lost their ability to communicate above or below ground. Man have turned them into deaf or dumb who are easy prey for the pests. Instead, because of tons of chemicals, they survive.
