In general, people usually treat plants as passive objects that can decorate both the garden and home, requiring only a little greater care than, for example, the usual decorative element.
But in fact, plants are far more complicated organisms that can interact with the surrounding environment, feel the smell and voices, interact with each other and insects, and even process information.
Interviewed by Scientific American - Daniel Chamovitz, a biologist and author of book "What a Plant Knows" - says that in addition to some of the above-mentioned unexpected abilities, plants also have unlikely skills - skills that require the brain to exist, such as memory.
Plants have multiple varieties of memory - just like humans. They have, for example, shared memory for short storage and immune memory.
People may find it difficult to understand, but if memory expects memorization and recording, then the plants will be able to do all this, so they have the memory.
For example, in order to close the Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), it is necessary for the insect to touch two of its leafy hairs - this can be inferred from the fact that the plant must remember the former first touch.
But this memory lasts only about 20 seconds, after which the plant forgets and no longer takes into account it.
Although the plants may be able to process the information, Chamovitz rejects the idea that it might be a "plant neuroscience"
He notes, however, that plants produce some of the same chemicals that play an important role in human brain.
Free translation from the article: „How Smart Are Plants?“
Science For The Curious Discover:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/06/06/how-smart-are-plants/#.VnFoZE91Hkd
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