Mushrooms are able to talk to each other and have a vocabulary of up to 50 words.
Mushrooms are able to talk to each other
Fungi experts believe that they are most likely to be having conversations about the weather and potential dangers.
The mushrooms could also be warning others that they are on their patch and telling them to back off.
Boffins analysed patterns of electrical activity in four species of mushroom and say that spikes of activity came when the fungi were "chatting". It is believed that the conversations are relayed through fungal roots called mycelium.
Professor Andrew Adamatzky, from the University of West England, found that the average mushroom word length was 5.97 letters - making the language more complex than English, which has an average of 4.8 letters.
Writing in the journal Royal Society Open Science, Professor Adamatzky said: "Assuming that spikes of electrical activity are used by fungi to communicate, we demonstrate that distributions of fungal word lengths match that of human languages.
"We found that the size of fungal vocabulary can be up to 50 words, however, the core vocabulary of most frequently used words does not exceed 15 to 20 words."