{"id":49781,"date":"2016-08-22T07:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=49781"},"modified":"2016-08-05T10:07:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T14:07:56","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-trees-keep-in-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-trees-keep-in-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: How Do Trees Keep in Touch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/grove-tree-ring-print?source=blog_uk082216\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49785 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/42282_uk082216.jpg\" alt=\"42282_uk082216\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a>Outside of <a href=\"http:\/\/tolkiengateway.net\/wiki\/Treebeard\" target=\"_blank\">fantasy novels,<\/a> trees don\u2019t speak or move under their own power. But despite their apparent silence, they do communicate. Researchers have found that trees in North American forests exchange information via a natural network of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/earth\/story\/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden-internet\" target=\"_blank\">mycorrhizal connections<\/a>\u2014a symbiotic system of roots and fungus. Using this organic internet, mature \u201cmother\u201d trees can keep track of their nearby offspring and give them more room and resources. Even trees of different species have been observed using the mycorrhizal network to share sugars if the recipient tree can\u2019t photosynthesize enough nutrients. And a tree can warn others in its network when it\u2019s under attack from pests, giving the unaffected trees more time to produce defensive enzymes. I guess the Motown hit was called \u201cI Heard it Through the Grapevine\u201d because \u201cI Heard it Through the Symbiotic Underground Mycorrhizal Network\u201d just didn\u2019t have the same ring to it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/grove-tree-ring-print?source=blog_uk082216\" target=\"_blank\">Grove Tree Ring Print<\/a> | $40-100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside of fantasy novels, trees don\u2019t speak or move under their own power. But despite their apparent silence, they&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":49785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[439,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49809,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49781\/revisions\/49809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}