This short book is an ode to the adaptability and the movement of plants, both in their rootedness, and in their ability to colonize far away places. Macuso is an authority in the field of plant neurobiology, which explores signaling and communication at all levels of biological organization. Each short chapter treats a different plant’s migration – from the familiar coconut (why are they so big?), to lesser known species, some limited to one tiny area and others finding success throughout the planet. How do some survive in very inhospitable places, how have others learned to cope when the animal upon which it depended to help spread its seed goes extinct, were hippopotamuses really considered as a solution the problem of the invasive non-native water hyacinth in Louisiana?. And when does a “non-native” plant become accepted as native in a habitat? As they say, all things are connected. 158 pp.
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