Mushrooms talk to each other..

[Dirk]

Shrooms talked to me once.......

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Shrooms talked to me once.......

psilocybin

 

[Speicher]

Does one mushroom stalk another? Or is that a load of crepe?

 

[Stephenite]

No thread about shiitake mushrooms can avoid this at some point….

(probably NSFW for the obvious reason)

How had I not heard of Catherine Tate before?! So funny.
Some light relief planned for tonight, i think.

 

[bagpuss]

Two mushrooms ,one says " Can you see where we are ? the other replies "no its to dark " why do ask ,Well I think I have put my stump in something !!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Trees have taken a leaf out of the same book and do much the same thing. (Though theirs is called the wood-wide web).

Morel of the story is don't a-shroom that only higher-order creatures communicate!

I remember hearing a German forester talking about this on the radio. IIRC he said trees communicate through their root tips and he had plenty of anecdotal evidence to back this up. What stuck in my mind though was when he talked about why he left his job - he realised that trees grown from pots have their root tips cut off, torn away or damaged during transplanting and they're effectively brain dead. He then described how you can see this in plantations where they've been grown this way and they're effectively sterile, barren wards of victims in comas.

I was left feeling incredibly sad.

 

[mustang1]

Uhm this is like... old news. Have The Sun readers just round to this?

 

[PeteXXX]

A memory has just surfaced of something I read about, possibly, Native Americans dancing around a tree telling it that they were going to chop it down before felling a different one. This caused the trees around to faint. That meant that the tree felled didn't feel any pain, and the tree that thought it was going to be cut down was happy that it didn't happen.

Or did I just dream this!?

 

[DRM]

I think most life forms on our planet probably communicate in ways we wouldn't/can't recognise.

Including teenagers

 

[DRM]

View: https://youtu.be/JnC88xBPkkc


Old news, Rush were singing about this concept of plants communicating since 1979

 

[bagpuss]

Or this chap.....

View: https://youtu.be/323kQis2zbM?t=2

 

[DRM]

Stanley Unwin an absolute genius, god alone knows how he did that, none sense that sounded ever so nearly right but totally gibberish

 

[oldwheels]

A memory has just surfaced of something I read about, possibly, Native Americans dancing around a tree telling it that they were going to chop it down before felling a different one. This caused the trees around to faint. That meant that the tree felled didn't feel any pain, and the tree that thought it was going to be cut down was happy that it didn't happen.

Or did I just dream this!?

I have read this a long time ago but no idea if they actually did that or it could be in modern parlance fake news.