In 1900, ornithologist Thomas G. Gentry authored Intelligence in Plants and Animals which argued that plants have consciousness. Historian Ed Folsom described it as “an exhaustive investigation of how such animals as bees, ants, worms and buzzards, as well as all kinds of plants, display intelligence and thus have souls” OMG!  In addition to the newly conceived foetus?

In the 1960s Cleve Backster, an interrogation specialist with the CIA, conducted research that led him to believe that plants can communicate with other lifeforms.

Studies on the vine Boquila trifoliata has raised questions on the mode by which they are able to perceive and mimic the shape of the leaves of the plant upon which they climb. Experiments have shown that they even mimic the shape of plastic leaves when trained on them.^[9] Suggestions have even been made that plants might have a form of vision.^[10]

Plants are considered carnivorous if they have these five traits:^[18]

1. capture prey in traps
2. kill the captured prey
3. digest the captured prey
4. absorb nutrients from the killed and digested prey
5. use those nutrients to grow and develop.

Other traits may include the attraction and retention of prey.^[18]