Trees and interesting behaviour - crown shyness

[phinix]

I love trees, I really do, love to be in a woods, watch the trees, take photos of them, hug them as well

Anyway! I noticed it years ago and just recently it was bugging me so much I had to look up and found out I was right!

Apparently, some of the trees species has this weird behaviour called crown shyness - their canopies do not touch each other, tend not to grow wide enough to touch other trees' branches.

Most of the time between same species, but also between different kinds too.

Have you guys notice it?

I keep checking it every time I'm in a park or woods and yeah, looks like it.

Cool

[Rob27shred]

That is pretty cool! I think you just sent me down a rabbit hole here LOL.... 

[tp4tissue]

Trees are connected to earth's largest neural network via the Mycelium in the soil.

They are a processing/ data node of the planet. The system as a whole is highly conscious, perhaps even in super-natural terms (relative to humans).

[Rhienfo]

That's such a pretty image, evolution in nature is so interesting.