Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s5.18

c5.s5.18

“Agni (energy) and air (CO₂?) help in the digestion (assimilation) of the water (watery food materials) which is absorbed through the roots of the trees (and conveyed to the leaves). And it is on account of the assimilation of this watery solution that the vegetable kingdom undergoes development and becc graceful.”