 And then the botanist himself, who I was spending time with, thought it was something far more sci-fi, that this plant was actually just receptive to the microbiomes of other plants, that the sheave of plants is not determined by the plant itself, but rather by sort of third-party organisms. Tune in to Living on Earth next time to hear Zoe Schlanger talk about her new book, The Light Eaters, how the unseen world of plant intelligence offers a new understanding of life on Earth.