[Sacajaweau]

I never undress in front of my plants.

[Red Badger]

Many plants react to touch, and to shadows on their leaves................

[hinckley buzzard]

Interesting. I knew a professor in grad school who was trying to classically condition a Venus fly trap to close on a conditioned stimulus rather than an actual physical trigger. Didn’t work.

[rightwingcrazy]

Potatoes, maybe.

[Adder]

Can’t tell...leaves are in the way...

[Leaning Right]

Can plants see? According to Christopher Walken, the answer is yes.

[V K Lee]

Find a field of blooming sunflowers. Watch them turn their
heads as the sun marches across the sky. They manage without sunglasses. Venus flytraps, for the most part, are very successful in catching their prey. Ask any optometrist if he as ever perscribed glasses and to what species.

[Rastus]

Do geese see God?

[Roadrunner383]

Can plants see?

I’m going to go out on a limb, and say no.

[Boogieman]

Well, we know plants can detect light, but this kind of thing would seem to require something like a nervous system and not simply the ability to sense light...

[mewzilla]

Ask these guys.

[algore]

Very interesting, thanks.

There is also some research on forest networks, and how trees talk to each other over fugal networks.

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2019/exploring-the-underground-network-of-trees-the-nervous-system-of-the-forest/

[cpdiii]

The light from the plant is is climbing on will affect a shadow and thus the vine can perceive the shape of the other and mimics it.

[plain talk]

[P.O.E.]

I’ve seen “mimic” weed plants grow right up my peppermint. Might be an evolutionary thing, they just didn’t get weeded out as often as obvious intruders.

Similar plants might get a free pollination ride, or protection from predators, etc.

[moovova]

[unread]

Can Plants See?

An Iris, maybe.. (?)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Remember fifty-fifty five years ago when it was claimed plants had feelings?

[CapnJack]

Well, I’ll have to remember that the next time I put the old Husqvarna 395XP blade up to an oak or maple ... it might swipe a branch down at me.

[Old Yeller]

Potatoes have eyes. So there’s that.