From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um.

Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Anna Weggle.

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Every Tuesday, I like to rearrange my houseplants. Sometimes I go by alphabetical order, you know,

aloe vera, begonia, chrysanthemum, etc. Sometimes I like to arrange them in order of largest

smallest leaves. Today, I'm just freestyling and I'm feeling the vibes. Hmm. Let's see how the

violets look next to the begonias.

Eh, I don't know. Maybe they should be on opposite sides of the window sill.

Vibe check. Begonia, would you love living next to your friend, Miss Violet, over here?

Do you plants love each other? How do you feel about each other? Wait, do flowers feel love? My friend Ilya was wondering about this too. Hello, my name is Ilya and I'm from Brooklyn, New York.

My question is, do flowers all in love? Humans feel love because we have a brain and a central nervous system.

Plants don't have these things and so no, they don't fall in love.

My name is Laura Steele and I am a plant scientist in Melbourne, Australia.

While plants don't have a central nervous system, they can still absorb information from the environment around them.

And they communicate in other ways.

Plants release chemicals into the air and from their roots.

And this kind of language is what allows them to communicate with themselves,

neighboring plants and other insects.

So in the case of beneficial insects, insects that are going to help them spread their pollen,

they want to attract those.

Whereas predators' insects that might try and eat them, they want to keep them away.

And interestingly, some plants

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