By Bernadette Bourjade Human beings and animals are in their essence beings made for communication. They have senses that help them in this: a mouth, ears, smell, touch. But plants often appear to us as insensitive, impassive. But is this really so? They, like us, are part of the “living”. We can ask ourselves: are plants…

By Bernadette Bourjade When thinking about the ecological system, what often comes to mind are the disparity of certain species, natural selection, competition or even negative rivarly. However, there are also plants that are called facilitating plants, mother plants or nurturing plants. For example, in the Sahel desert, there exists a bush called Guiera Senegalensis, which,…