Some things you can't unlearn - you are warned

[GreenstoneVT]

So a new study shows that plants "scream" in the ultrasonic range when cut or dry. Try not to think about that during your next removal.

Plants emit informative airborne sounds under stress

Stressed plants show altered phenotypes, including changes in color, smell, and shape. Yet, the possibility that plants emit airborne sounds when stressed – similarly to many animals – has not been investigated. Here we show, to our knowledge for the first time, that stressed plants emit...

www.biorxiv.org

 

[JeffGu]

I was letting the air out of a bicycle tire and the cat came over to investigate. I realized that I may have put the tire in mortal danger by making it scream in the vicinity of the cat. I feel pretty bad. I think I'm going to have to stop eating plants and bicycle tires. Luckily, there's still bacon!

 

[RopeShield]

Cool cool cool.
From plant eater to plant eater, cool find and thanks!

 

[Mowerr]

man, RUB IT ON YOUR CHEST....

 

[Woodwork]

Huh. Never heard that before. ;-)

I have heard green wood scream after I threw it into the woodstove, though.

 

[JeffGu]

...green wood scream...

I've got a Mulberry log in there, hissing and snarling like a pissed off cat. Why can't it just be happy, like the other logs making Kellogg's snap, crackle and pop sounds?

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Maybe the smell of burning mulberry isn’t offensive to descendants of prairie dwellers. Years ago I had a lot of mulberry put up for the winter. One evening I was talking with a neighbor who asked me, in a certain way, what I was burning. I took a big sniff, and was overwhelmed by the burning cow chips smell. Tony accepted my apologies and the mulberry was relegated to the after ten pm burning slot for the winter. His French ancestors stopped in Minneapolis. Not the prairies

 

[Woodwork]

Maybe the smell of burning mulberry isn’t offensive to descendants of prairie dwellers. Years ago I had a lot of mulberry put up for the winter. One evening I was talking with a neighbor who asked me, in a certain way, what I was burning...

And here I thought you were gonna say something about cannabis...same family!

 

[JeffGu]

I'd burn that, too.... if I can figure out a way to pipe the smoke into the City Council chambers.

 

[Treetopflyer]

 

[Woodwork]

I know when lightning hits the trees here in the yard (happens a lot out here in the middle of open farmland/flatland), when the lightning first establishes an arc, for about a quarter of a second, it makes this crunching sound that sounds like celery when I chew it.

 

[speelyei]

GreenstoneVT, give this a listen:

Smarty Plants

Do you really need a brain to sense the world around you? To remember? Or even learn?

www.wnycstudios.org

 

[speelyei]

You might also enjoy a book by Peter Wohlleben called The Hidden Life of Trees