Mistletoe Has Brains -- The Intelligence in Plants

1922
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Mistletoe Has Brains

One of the most curious illustrations of the working of intelligence in plants is offered by the mistletoe, whose sticky berry, finding lodgment on a tree branch, throws out a tiny rootlet, which tries to pierce the bark and thus obtain a foothold. If the bark is too tough, the rootlet swings the berry over to a fresh spot, and makes another trial. In this way such a berry has been known to make five jumps in two nights and three days. On one occasion a number of them were discovered by a botanist in the act of visibly journeying along a telegraph wire, trying to find places to grow.— Exchange.

--The Pointer, Riverdale, Illinois, August 4, 1922, page 4.