Plants
The nature series turns to plants and looks at the ingenious solutions that they employ to counter life's challenges, such as spring-loaded traps, suckers and claws.
Plants' solutions to life's challenges are as ingenious and manipulative as any animal's.
Innovative time-lapse photography opens up a parallel world where plants act like fly-paper, or spring-loaded traps, to catch insects. Vines develop suckers and claws to haul themselves into the rainforest canopy. Every peculiar shape proves to have a clever purpose. The dragon's blood tree is like an upturned umbrella to capture mist and shade its roots. The seed of a Bornean tree has wings so aerodynamic they inspired the design of early gliders. The barrel-shaped desert rose is full of water. The heliconia plant even enslaves a humming bird and turns it into an addict for its nectar.
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Clips
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Woodland timelapse
Duration: 04:14
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Woodland timelapse
Duration: 01:04
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Meat-eating plants
Duration: 02:22
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Sizing up saquaros
Duration: 02:31
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Julee Cruise
Questions In A World of Blue
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Narrator | David Attenborough |
| Executive Producer | Michael Gunton |
| Producer | Neil Lucas |
Broadcasts
Mon 7 Dec 200921:00
Mon 7 Dec 200922:35BBC One Northern Ireland- Tue 8 Dec 200920:00
- Sun 13 Dec 200917:30
- Fri 18 Dec 200900:30BBC One except Northern Ireland & Wales
- Tue 22 Dec 200900:40BBC One Northern Ireland
- Sat 10 Apr 201019:00
- Thu 10 Jun 201000:00BBC HD
- Sat 4 Dec 201019:00
- Sat 29 Oct 201119:00
- Sat 29 Oct 201123:25BBC HD
- Sun 30 Oct 201101:50
- Mon 19 Aug 201920:00
Thu 25 Feb 202115:30BBC Two except Scotland- Mon 9 Oct 202319:00
- Tue 10 Oct 202302:30
- Tue 15 Oct 202419:00
- Wed 16 Oct 202401:50
