Intelligence in plants

I was walking with a local in The peruvian Amazon jungle and Then he saw this plant and exclaimed " who Say plants are not intelligent? "

What do You think?
Can this be an example of The intelligence of plants?

Yeah, why not? How does one define intelligence?

According to Wikipedia: "The word intelligence derives from the Latin nouns intelligentia or intellēctus, which in turn stem from the verb intelligere, to comprehend or perceive."

The plant perceived a wall and a roof overhang, and responded accordingly.

Indeed, the tree is striving to survive as all living things do.
What I see, is the homeowner cut it down before it destroyed his foundation and ripped his eve off.
I predict it may get "heavily trimmed" again in the future.

Without getting into definitions of intelligence, we can say confidently that plants are sensitive (they sense things, and not dimly either) and responsive (they have agency and can change their behavior, their growth, etc. in response to what's going on around them). We know that plants, some at least, release cortisol when they are damaged, which is the same stress hormone we release when we receive an injury. I hope people think about that whenever they harvest vegetables. I think about it whenever I'm dicing celery, that this plant must be silently screaming in agony as I'm slowly chopping it sliver by sliver. Genetically, plants are still our close cousins, as are fungi and microbes etc. This is what it means to be alive, at least as a complicated multicellular organism. It is both horrific and beautiful and mostly we don't like to think about it.

Another illustration of intelligent plants: Dandelions growing tall next to my retaining wall where they don't get trodden or driven over. Further out the stubby stalks don't get damaged if they are trodden on. Nature or nuture?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g613q8Ikyk

This whole series of videos is highly indicative of a constant communication occurring with plants.

Just because we cannot sense a thing does not mean that a thing does not exist.

I used to live with some friends, and they had a lot of vine (I forget the exact name) growing on their property. The vine had, apparently with some degree of intention, you could say, crossed a three or four foot gap from the roof of the house to the roof of the garage. It was sort of mystifying to me. I tried to imagine what it looked like, the vine slowly spiraling out across the gap until it reached the other roof. It's sort of like when I think about how bees travel and communicate directions to each other. A completely different way of perceiving and navigating the world.

great topic for a thread