The article analyses the special relationship with the world of plants developed by anthroposophy from the framework of a new perspective called the "plant turn" (Myers 2015). Anthroposophy (AS) is analysed as a peculiar form of Analogism (Descola 2005), historically derived from the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner and subsequently evolved into contemporary AS practices that the author encountered during her fieldwork in a community of NorthEastern Italy. Both Steiner's texts and the analysis of

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... ntemporary practices of AS reveal a relationship with the world of plants that the author reads in light of Ingold's categories of "interweaving" of the world, the inter-penetration of elements, and their ceaseless becoming (Ingold 2011). The result is a representation of the vegetal world involving the whole cosmos, humans and non-humans, terrestrial and celestial, in a cosmic expansion of the relations between beings typical of Analogisms. The practices referring to the vegetal world enacted by anthroposophists are intense, engaging, dialogue-based and provocative in their ability to uproot many elements of naturalism and deal with a contemporary world characterised by ecological crisis.