![]() ![]() Carbon-14 dating has shown that a spruce from Dalarna, Sweden, has reached the staggering age of 9,550 years. A tree stump whose trunk was cut down four or five centuries ago stays alive, thanks to exchanges carried out with neighbouring trees. The unknown treeįirst of all, a few fascinating facts. Are Ents pure fantasy? Maybe not, according to this new book by German forester Peter Wohlleben, who invites us to re-examine our “vegetative” notion of trees. They can move around and talk, albeit very slowly. ![]() Tolkien conjures up tree-like characters, the Ents, who watch over the forests. Reviewed: Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees, What They Feel, How They Communicate, Vancouver, Greystone Books, 2016 ![]()
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