We’ve recently learnt they have their own ‘internet’ – known to botanists as the ‘wood wide web’ – which an astonishing 80 per cent of all plants use as their ‘provider’ and where they have been observed committing the equivalent of cyber-crime, as well as doing online shopping. They also, it has been discovered, appear to know who their family are, apparently recognising their siblings, thereby avoiding competing with them for resources and sending them messages through the WWW, warning them of danger.
