Episodes
Life: Plants (BBC Four Monday 9 October 2023)
Life: Plants airs Monday 9 October 2023 on BBC Four.
What is this episode about
Plants are just as creative and manipulative as animals when it comes to finding answers to life’s problems.
Using cutting-edge time-lapse photography, we can peer into a parallel universe in which plants serve as fly-paper or spring-loaded traps to snare insects. Suckers and claws help vines climb to the top of the rainforest. Every odd form turns out to serve an ingenious function. The dragon’s blood tree uses its umbrella-like canopy to trap fog and provide shade for its underground stems. The streamlined wings of a Bornean tree’s seed influenced the development of the first gliders. The spiky desert rose is actually a hollow barrel full of water. Even a hummingbird can become dependent on the nectar of the heliconia plant.
Episode 9 of 10
When can we see the episode
Life: Plants airs Monday 9 October 2023 at 7:00pm on BBC Four
Featured Image Credit: BBC Four
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