Do You Think Trees Have a Culture?

Japanese grabbed me by the soul in the way no other language ever did. Do you think trees have a culture? I do. What's their culture like? Oh, my. There are trees and this is not woo-woo crazy people on the fringe saying this. This is mainstream botany. And there are certain big trees that for some reason are more willing to share the sugars that they create with the saplings that grow around them. So they will actually shunt their sugars to these smaller trees, which can then grow up even though they're not in the sunlight. When the mother tree gets old and loses her leaves or breaks down to a stump, those saplings will feed