Right… perhaps you don’t make sense out of memory and plants. Fact is, there’s more evidence that plants do find their way to communicate information.
As always this depends on how you define communication, or information. This new study by Yang, X., Sanchez, R., Kundariya, H. et al. shows that gene activation as response to initial environmental conditions can be transmitted to further generations of plants with no new stimuli nor genetic change. In some cases individual response to stress are transmitted down to next generations.
This is not hard to see as beneficial in evolutionary terms. What is hard in this case is to make peace with our egocentric view that plants, as the inferior life form we labeled them, would not be able to achieve such divine prerogative.
As consciousness researchers in general often realize, and studies such as we find in Peter Wohlleben amazing book ‘The Hidden Life of Trees’ we should more often rethink our ideas on plant complex existence.