Language.

In all it's forms and actors. Language, in some way, is present in most of known living organisms. From the visual displays cuttlefish can do with their skins, to the dances peacock spiders perform to attract mates and ward off competition, and to us humans, with our many, many forms. Language seems to be some sort of constant among species.

So why should we be surprised to learn that plants also can speak?

Scientists have just begun to decipher the communication mechanisms that plants and trees use. Usually they have known to a limit that plants communicated by chemical signals emitted as scents that warned plants of predators, or of local conditions, like drought. But it seems that everyone has overlooked something quite amazing; the roots.

Recently it has been discovered that the root system is much, much more complex than previously thought. A plant's or tree's roots spread across the land, and by doing this they come in contact with the roots of other plants and trees.

This complex system, is rhizomatic in structure and resembles the the networks of brain cells, or even the one seen in the internet. Hence, why many scientists refer to this find as the Wood Wide Web. It seems obvious, if we think that up to 80% of a plant's structure lies underground! Many researchers have supported that the plant's thinking structure happens in the root system and that perhaps cognition in plants and trees happen more collectively than individually.

As many scientists say, we seem to have understood plants wrong all this time. Perhaps we should think of them upside down, since their "brains" are in their roots!

The notions that plants can talk will produce a lot of future research and debate. After all, if many people decline to eat animal meat due to empathy to the animal's suffering, then what would we do if we understand that plants also suffer, fear and feel pain?

This new exhibit at the MuseOn also aims to promote a closer relations to plants by the visitors, and to foster the understanding of the importance of preservation of the ecological system that surrounds us and that we need desperately to know better.