[Referring to the heartbeat of trees]…while trees sleep at night they routinely have beats pulsate throughout their body.

These pulses are the tree distributing water throughout its body, similar to the way a heart pumps blood through the body. This could change the way that we study and look at trees, as it had long been assumed that trees distribute water via osmosis. What an incredible find! The heart beats occur very slowly in between one another, with some of them taking hours to repeat. The phenomenon is slow and gentle that it cannot be seen with the naked human eye. Nature is amazing!

~ Brandon Prows

Tree and Sunlight, Kanchanaburi, Thailand – photo by Thiradech, bigstockphoto.com