Trees Communication

In other words, trees aren't just connected. They're actually sharing resources with each other. So what we found initially, if one tree had a lot of of water in it or a lot of nitrogen had high photosynthetic rate, and if one tree is sick, then the neighboring tree shuttles more of those nutrients to that suffering tree. And when you say communicate, do they actually communicate like they warn each other about a fire or an invasive species or something? Yes. So if one tree gets damaged by the mountain pine beetle, the injured seedling will up its defense enzymes and then the receiving tree will then increase its defense enzymes because it knows now that there's some kind of damaging agent around. Wow. So. So how are they? Are they doing this? How are they communicating through through an underground network? So they're physically connected by these microscopic fungi and so mushrooms. Yes, you're right. We call them hyphae or mycelium. In fact, like if you were to, you know, peel back the surface of the forest floor, you'll see the fungi that are linking these trees together. They're very visible. And it's these white and yellow, different colored threads that are they look like, you know, sewing threads, but they're fungal threads and they're crisscrossed and going off in multiple directions. And they work together to create a very, you know, a very complex web. And they're in constant communication between all the.