Trees. They're pretty much everywhere in the world, from Amazonian jungle to Urban jungle. They give us life through oxygen, food, shelter and even just simple and natural beauty. Trees stay in the same place their entire lives, rooted to the same spot, only moving they're branches and leaves slowly to adjust to the direction of the sun.

There's one other thing that trees do though that most people don't know about though. Trees talk to one another.

Now, when I say that, some people will think that I'm just talking about pollen being transferred from one tree to another. Well, they actually send messages to each other through they're roots.

Mycorrhiza systems are forests with a really cool set up, through a symbiotic fungus connects to the roots of trees and other plants creating a large spider web of communication between the entire ecosystem. The plants are able to send resources to one another like water and carbon. Older trees send these to the younger saplings in the forest in order to help them survive and grow, which makes the forest healthier as a whole.

All of these trees are connected to a mother, the biggest tree in the forest. She gets the most nutrients and distributes the to the trees in most need. In this way, she is the guardian of her forest; she keeps it healthy and growing.

When that trees cut down the survival rate of the rest of the forest is greatly diminished, just like an animals chances of survival are greatly diminished when they lose their mother. This brings a whole new science to the logging industry. By letting the older trees in a forest live in these mycorrhiza, systems they can help the seedlings in that first grow healthier and faster.

The fungus that connects all of these roots of course feeds off some of the nutrients given to it by all of the trees, but what if it didn't just send nutrients and signals to other trees? What if it worked as a phone line as well? What if we just don't have the technology or the means to pick up what they are saying? Sounds crazy, right? Let me give an example of unknown communication we didn't know existed until we had the technology; it's between elephants.

Now scientist and the general world has known that elephants communicate with each other through body language, trumpeting, and other sounds that we can hear and see. Within the last ten years we found out that they communicate another way as well. Elephants rumble deep in their chests at a frequency that we can't hear. These rumbles cause vibrations that travel through the elephants' legs and down to there round and meaty feet. These vibrations can travel for miles to other elephants who pick them up with there feet, sending the message to their brains. This is how elephants adjust as they travel to danger and water. We didn't know this was happening until we had the technology to pick it up.

So what if we just don't have the technology yet to hear that trees really are having conversations? What do you think the trees could be talking about? The weather? Or the weird stuff that our species does? Comment what you think and share if you found this interesting. If you'd like to read more the article I found this from is below!

Engelsiepen, Jane. "Trees Communicate with Each Other." Positive News: Informs, Inspires, Empowers. Positive News, n.d. Web. 09 Sept. 2016.