Yes I strongly feel so. We can cite an example of bio-sensing ability of plants to seasonal changes in climate and accordingly the consequent changes in their nutrient density. Soil  pH sensing plant known as Hydrangea producing pink flowers under alkaline soil and blue flowers under acidic soil conditions. Like that many more examples an be cited...Plants can easy sense their surroundings through inbuilt intelligence system..

Yes I strongly feel so. We can cite an example of bio-sensing ability of plants to seasonal changes in climate and accordingly the consequent changes in their nutrient density. Soil  pH sensing plant known as Hydrangea producing pink flowers under alkaline soil and blue flowers under acidic soil conditions. Like that many more examples an be cited...Plants can easy sense their surroundings through inbuilt intelligence system..

A proper English sentence would be:

Do plants possess intelligence ?

Regards

AP

I am pretty sure that plant possess intelligence. They can proper sense the environment and react on the changing

TP

Well  said Kirti, nice response..i agree with you..Only thing , we need to decode the  underlying mechanisms of intelligence in plants ..

Plant physiologists and biochemists understand the intelligence system of plants  more precisely..

For centuries we have considered them as something not unlike rocks, a part of the landscape, or simple decorative elements that we tread and start at pleasure, since we never heard them complain. Except for their more or less slow growth or their seasonal cycles, the plants always appear immobile and imperturbable, ignorant of what happens around them. Is an inability to see or notice the plants that live in our environment, which implies that we do not recognize their importance in the biosphere and in our lives. It is a paradigmatic phenomenon, because if tomorrow the plants of the planet disappear, all life would be extinct. Without them, the ecosystem would collapse, we would have no food, no oxygen, not even fuel. It is therefore alarming that one-fifth of the plant species are on the verge of extinction. Living beings, though merely passive. But, it is being discovered that plants do amazing things. For example: It is shown that pea plants are able to locate water at a distance in the absence of moisture thanks to this kind of vegetable ear sense. Only when they have located where does the water flow, they use their own moisture as an additional clue to reach their target accurately. But before this they depend on the sound, to such an extent that the background noise confuses them, and they are even able to distinguish the actual sound from a recording. The above would seem like science fiction, if it were not because it is actually a further milestone in the Understanding the unusual capabilities of plants has also been shown to associate food simply by hearing a sound from a so-called bell, food was a light source, and the bell was a stream of air induced by a fan. If the plants are presented with a Y-shaped labyrinth, they grow on the illuminated path where the air also blows, but they continue to choose the same option in the absence of light; Have learned to associate the stream of air with light. And if skepticism is essential for scientists, it is also necessary to remain open to a paradigm shift when experimental evidence so dictates. And in this case, there is enough evidence to advise.

In addition it can be said that with its system of pigments sensitive to the light they can see to their neighbors thanks to the infrared detection emitted during the photosynthesis; They smell their neighbors and their enemies; Communicate with other plants, warning them of the dangers; Decide according to the environmental parameters; Recall past weather conditions and herbivorous attacks; Use animals for defensive purposes, pollinate or disperse their seeds; Deploy strategies to avoid aggression; And of course, they also hear. Most importantly, they make decisions.

Plants have intelligence. Clearly there are differences between plants and higher animals, but when we examine lower animals, the differences are very small, and the higher plants may be smarter than certain animals

The idea that evolution has followed converging paths in large realms like animals and plants to reach similar goals with different tools. Both ended up inventing the same solutions to similar problems.

Cognition have been considered exclusive faculties of beings with neurons, animals. Nonetheless, some scientists talk about plant neurobiology.

 Plants can communicate with other plants, warning them of dangers. However, the researchers agree with the new discipline of plant cognition, and it is in refuting the objections that all these capacities are no more than programmed molecular responses

The implications of all this exceed the purely scientific, attracting the attention and reflection of philosophers, humanists and experts in ethics: if today we know that plants can also feel

Dear Colleagues,

Plants may have some type of rudimentary  'cognition', which IMHO cannot be called 'intelligence' but at most 'adaptation' for 'survival' or rather specific 'aggregation' of cells in their environment.  Life entities need fast neurons networks and memory cells to create 'internal' self aware cognitive processes to  be called 'intelligence'.

So asking if plants have 'intelligence' is almost the same thing as asking if crystals or even atoms have intelligence since they create some material patterns, aggregates in the universe.  

I would rather call plants 'awareness' 'plantelligence'.

And atoms : atomtelligence

Regards

Aaron

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Aaron is right: if the property of valence (atomicity) is accepted to be intelligence too; it depends how far the definitions go

I suggest some good old Thomistic theology/philosophy: http://www.aquinasonline.com/Topics/vegsoul.html