Nope we understand plants. I said Fungi for a reason because we were late realising these were a different type of lifeform.or tomato plants
Leading thinkers with access to data believe it may be a plasma based life. This was the conclusion of a UK MOD report commissioned at the end of the 1990s (Project Condign)
This idea persists still...

Extraterrestrial Life in the Thermosphere Plasmas, UAP, Pre-Life, Fourth State of Matter
“Plasmas” up to a kilometer in size and behaving similarly to multicellular organisms have been filmed on 10 separate NASA space shuttle missions, over 200 miles above Earth within the thermosphere. These self-illuminated “plasmas” are attracted to and may “feed on” electromagnetic radiation...