Individual plant preferences are transmitted across generations through family memory

Evidence

It is evident that our plant biases are in part traditional. If your grandfather liked hickory nuts, you will like the hickory tree because your father told you to. If, on the other hand, your grandfather burned a log carrying a poison ivy vine and recklessly stood in the smoke, you will dislike the species, no matter with what crimson glories it warms your eyes each fall. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 262

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the storytelling/interpretation thread — how inherited narrative, not direct experience, shapes our reading of particular species and places. — connects to: Even devoted field study leaves core questions about a common species unanswered — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 128; People grieve the loss only of species they have come to know personally — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 177; Human populations may harbor emergent behavior patterns individuals unknowingly execute. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 649 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Plants communicate knowledge through embodied action rather than verbal language #expands (0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 450
• Food plants and humans shape each other’s evolution toward mutual thriving #expands (0.80) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 431
• Risk-averse seed choice explains Southeast Asian peasant rice preferences #complicates (0.75)
• Accepting a plant’s gift can itself stimulate that plant’s renewal #corroborates (0.75) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 583
• The attention economy functions as an industrial farm of vegetative users #exemplifies (0.72) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 83
• Effective parenting norms depend on closure across generations between families #complicates (0.70) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 121