This is a really cool article. They actually put plants into an unconscious state, and thereby realized that plants are indeed conscious.
Just thought I’d share this. Link in the headline and article is only a small excerpt:
Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious?
Now, a study published recently in Annals of Botany has shown that plants can be frozen in place with a range of anesthetics, including the types that are used when you undergo surgery.
Insights gleaned from the study may help doctors better understand the variety of anesthetics used in surgeries. But the research also highlights that plants are complex organisms, perhaps less different from animals than is often assumed.
“Plants are not just robotic, stimulus-response devices,” said Frantisek Baluska, a plant cell biologist at the University of Bonn in Germany and co-author of the study. “They’re living organisms which have their own problems, maybe something like with humans feeling pain or joy. In order to navigate this complex life, they must have some compass.”
Truth Farmer 
May 14, 2018 @ 09:42:22
My dad told me a story years ago where they did an experiment in a greenhouse nursery. They connected a plant to a “lie detector” Then had a man cut a leaf off the plant. The plant left a reaction on the lie detector device. They had the man come back a few days later and the plant reacted again when the man walked into the room. Recently I was made aware that the plants can react to our thoughts. If we simply think of cutting a leaf off the plant, it will react. I just thought it was interesting. Thank you for letting me share.