Foresight, intelligence, decisiveness, a good memory. All admirable qualities Just what you'd look for in a friend, colleague, doctor or pot plant. Hang on a moment...surely intelligent life does not have leaves? Mention the word "cabbage" or "vegetable" and genius isn't the first thing that springs to mind. And if someone said I had the foresight of a geranium, I don't think I'd take it as a compliment. But speak to Tony Trewavas of Edinburgh University and he'll tell you that plants have been seriously underestimated. Plants have the power to compute, they show foresight and they remember what happens to them, he says. "I'm not being silly," he insists. "These powers underpin a novel form of intelligence."
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