LIGHT EATERS: THE NEW SCIENCE OF PLANTS (PB)

A life spent rooted in a single spot comes with tremendous challenges. To meet them, plants have come up with some creative methods for survival – many of them so ingenious that they seem nearly impossible. Plants communicate when they are being eaten, their movement stops when they are anaesthetised, they can remember how many times they have been visited by a bee, and they can manipulate animals to defend or fertilise them. Packed with amazing stories, this book inexorably leads towards the questions, are plants intelligent, and are they conscious?