![]() ![]() ![]() It has a so-called green gap, and because it cannot use this part of the color spectrum, it has to reflect it back unused. Chlorophyll, however, has one disadvantage. If trees processed light super-efficiently, there would be hardly any left over – and the forest would then look as dark during the day as it does at night. “But why don’t we see leaves as black? Why don’t they absorb all the light? Chlorophyll helps leaves process light. ![]() Scientific research aimed at understanding the astonishing abilities of this partnership between fungi and plant has only just begun.” A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web” of soil fungi that connects vegetation in an intimate network that allows the sharing of an enormous amount of information and goods. Perhaps they are the parents of the trees that make up the forest of today. The trees in a forest care for each other, sometimes even going so far as to nourish the stump of a felled tree for centuries after it was cut down by feeding it sugars and other nutrients, and so keeping it alive. “But the most astonishing thing about trees is how social they are. ![]()
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