The Power of Tree Families

Listen again as Suzanne Simard discusses the question of whether trees are alive with BBC World Services, the big idea. Mother trees send food and nutrients to their own seedlings, young plants that have been grown from a seed. In this way, parent trees help their offspring, another word for their children, or young. With the extra nutrients and carbon they receive, the offspring can extend their own root network and suck up even more nutrients.