Jen G’s Reviews > When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy > Status Update
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“The carbon dioxide exhaled by my relatives as they lived and played around these trees would have supported the production of leaves and flowers, as well as the growth of the tree. Some of it would have been a surplus that was converted to starches and ultimately the wood that made up the trunk and branches of the tree.”
— Jan 08, 2026 07:39PM
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Jen G
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“As poplars signal when a stressful encounter has occurred, to prepare the neighboring trees to protect themselves, we see that these trees can share information about damage and distress. It leaves one to wonder whether— or perhaps hope that—trees that bore strange fruit also "talk" to other trees about these tragedies.”
— Jan 11, 2026 05:08PM
Jen G
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Stress hormones in mother’s milk , relating back to auxin and tree growth
— Jan 11, 2026 08:01AM
