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Title David Attenborough: Kingdom Of Plants: Solving the Secrets - Ep 2 Of 3 / Director: Williams, Martin
Published Australia : ABC, 2012
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Summary David Attenborough begins with the secret world of plant movement and uses sinister carnivorous plants to show just how active plants can be. Bladderwort utricularia is a pond-dweller that is among the fastest known, with its traps snapping shut in less than a millisecond.As the seasons change, David demonstrates how plants operate on a different time scale to us. We discover insects' hidden links with plants, both as pests and pollinators.With the aid of visual effects, David steps among the swirling vortices of plant scent; communication signals with which plants are inextricably plugged in to the natural world. And using a tuning fork, he demonstrates how plants and insects can even communicate with music.As autumn envelopes the Gardens, fungi reveal themselves not as the enemies of plants but their vital allies. In Kew's atmospheric Fungarium, David discovers a specimen that has the power of mind control and another that lives underground where it has grown to be so big it can be counted as the largest single organism on the planet.David concludes the episode in the Princess of Wales Conservatory, where he meets an old friend, the great Titan Arum. At 8ft tall, it is the largest flower in the world and a plant he remembers from a previous filming trip to Sumatra. Using heat sensitive cameras, David reveals the Titan Arum's secrets.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Directed by Martin Williams at Atlantic Productions. Executive Produced by Anthony Geffen
Event Broadcast 2012-10-28 at 19:30:00
Notes Classification: G
Subject Carnivorous plants.
Communication -- Research.
Inflorescences.
Insect trapping.
Insect-plant relationships.
Form Streaming video
Author Williams, Martin, director
Attenborough, David, host
Hollingworth, Robert, contributor