I am reminded of some of the things touched on by Carlos Castenada in his books about 40 years ago.
And, there is an interesting passage in the biography of Geronimo, a Chiricahua Apache, where he describes using the ability to hide in plain sight by matching the background vibrations of the local plants. In the tale, best as I remember it, he was trying to evade capture by Gen. Crook's troops and they passed within a few feet of himself and another famous Apache named Fun or Naiche, or potentially someone else. I don't remember exactly but the Apache were frequently on the run during the last years before surrender to Gen Crook. (It could also have been Gen. Miles later)
Anyway, the Apache believed that plants emitted vibrations in specific frequencies and that matching those frequencies allowed a kind of invisibility mask such that one only needed to stand motionless as a plant to blend in if they could match the bandwidth of the local plants. Pretty fascinating stuff and if true it would explain many other frontier experiences where normally alert people had items, in one famous case including a horse that the owner was holding by the reins at the time, stolen from their grasp.
The natural world is at times a strange and fascinating place. Many things happen all the time that have never been adequately studied or documented by western science yet which are known by the locals from regular casual encounters.
I would love to see additional work identifying how plants interact with their environments. There is a great video I think on Hulu about fungi that goes into a lot of detail about the importance of fungi to the natural world.
Again, thanks for this casual read. It was interesting and will inspire me to re-read Geronimo's book and potentially to dig deeper into this subject than I otherwise would.