Monica Gagliano is research associate professor of evolutionary ecology and research fellow of the Australian Research Council at the University of Western Australia.

John C. Ryan is honorary research fellow in English and cultural studies at the University of Western Australia.

Patrícia Vieira is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, comparative literature, and film and media studies and director of the comparative literature program at Georgetown University.

Contents
Introduction
Monica Gagliano, John C. Ryan, and Patrícia Vieira
Part I. Science
1. The Language of Plant Communication (and How it Compares to Animal Communication)
Richard Karban
2. Speaking in Chemical Tongues: Decoding the Language of Plant Volatiles
Robert A. Raguso and André Kessler
3. Unravelling the “Radiometric Signals” from Green Leaves
Christian Nansen
4. Breaking the Silence: Green Mudras and the Faculty of Language in Plants
Monica Gagliano
Part II. Philosophy
5. To Hear Plants Speak
Michael Marder
6. What the Vegetal World Says to Us
Luce Irigaray
7. The Intelligence of Plants and the Problem of Language: A Wittgensteinian Approach
Nancy E. Baker
8. A Tree By Any Other Name: Language-use and Linguistic Responsibility
Karen L. F. Houle
9. What Vegetables Are Saying about Themselves
Timothy Morton
Part III. Literature
10. The Language of Flowers in Popular Culture and Botany
Isabel Kranz
11. Phytographia: Literature as Plant Writing
Patrícia Vieira
12. Insinuations: Thinking Plant Politics with The Day of the Triffids
Joni Adamson and Catriona Sandilands
13. What the Plant Says: Plant Narrators and the Ecosocial Imaginary
Erin James
14. In the Key of Green?: The Silent Voices of Plants in Poetry
John C. Ryan
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index