Talkin’ trees communicate underground

CBC’s Quirks and Quarks featured work by Suzanne Simard, a UBC forest ecologist, on the secret communication between trees.

She said trees can link up below ground and communicate using carbon compounds through a fungal network.

“It’s like a telephone line,” Simard said. “All the tree roots are linked up to all the other tree roots and there’s messages going back and forth from plant, to plant, to plant.”