The Green Planet
The War Between Fungi and Trees
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Meet the World's Biggest Flower
The Corpse Flower is more than 3 feet across and smells like a rotting... well, corpse!
The Corpse Flower is more than 3 feet across and smells like a rotting... well, corpse!
How Leaf Cutter Ants Feed a Killer Fungus
Leaf Cutter ants deliver their payload to a fungus underground to grow food.
Leaf Cutter ants deliver their payload to a fungus underground to grow food.
What Photosynthesis Looks Like Underwater
Where the plants are dense, it can create sea of fizzing bubbles.
Where the plants are dense, it can create sea of fizzing bubbles.
How the Giant Water Lily Dominates
The Giant Water Lily creates around 40 leaves that each expand to more than 6 feet across.
The Giant Water Lily creates around 40 leaves that each expand to more than 6 feet across.
How Venus Flytraps Count
Venus Flytraps use two systems to make sure they're catching prey worth eating.
Venus Flytraps use two systems to make sure they're catching prey worth eating.
The Orchid that Pretends It's A Wasp
The Hammer Orchid emits the scent of the female thynnid wasp to confuse the male.
The Hammer Orchid emits the scent of the female thynnid wasp to confuse the male.
The Fungi that Help Trees Talk
Fungi is able to link a whole group of trees through their root systems.
Fungi is able to link a whole group of trees through their root systems.
Why Elephants Eat the Baobab Tree
The baobab stores thousands of gallons of water in its spongy wood.
The baobab stores thousands of gallons of water in its spongy wood.
The Plant that Makes Its Home on a Cactus
Tristerix seeds travel in bird droppings to invade the bodies of giant cactus.
Tristerix seeds travel in bird droppings to invade the bodies of giant cactus.
How Do You Pollinate 40 Million Almond Trees?
You truck in in 40 billion bees.
You truck in in 40 billion bees.
One Sharpshooter Way to Stop an Invasive Plant
Marksmen use paintballs filled with herbicide shot from a helicopter to stop Miconia.
Marksmen use paintballs filled with herbicide shot from a helicopter to stop Miconia.
The War Between Fungi and Trees
Watch vines and balsa trees fight out who will get to the top of the canopy.
Watch vines and balsa trees fight out who will get to the top of the canopy.
Seeds that Literally Run Away
Some plants developed adaptations that were unhelpful for the cultivation of crops.
Some plants developed adaptations that were unhelpful for the cultivation of crops.
How Vines Lasso Their Way to the Top of the Plant World
Watch vines and balsa trees fight out who will get to the top of the canopy.
Watch vines and balsa trees fight out who will get to the top of the canopy.
How Saguaro Cacti Store 1000 Gallons of Water
The saguaro features a pleated surface which allows it to expand.
The saguaro features a pleated surface which allows it to expand.