The Green Planet
Sir David Attenborough travels the globe to reveal the secret, incredible world of plants.
Tropical Worlds
S1 Ep1 | 55m 54s
Sir David Attenborough takes a plants-eye view of life in a rainforest.
Water Worlds
S1 Ep2 | 55m 55s
Sir David Attenborough discovers amazing water plants, some of which can count and hunt.
Seasonal Worlds
S1 Ep3 | 55m 55s
Sir David Attenborough reveals the surprising effects of the seasons on plant life.
Human Worlds
S1 Ep5 | 55m 55s
Sir David Attenborough reveals how humans help plants, many of which face extinction.
Sir David Attenborough travels the globe to reveal the secret, incredible world of plants.
Sir David Attenborough travels the globe to reveal the secret, incredible world of plants.
Meet the World’s Biggest Flower
S1 Ep1 | 3m 46s
The Corpse Flower is more than 3 feet across and smells like a rotting... well, corpse!
The War Between Fungi and Trees
S1 Ep1 | 2m
Watch vines and balsa trees fight out who will get to the top of the canopy.
How Vines Lasso Their Way to the Top of the Plant World
S1 Ep1 | 3m 20s
Watch vines and balsa trees fight out who will get to the top of the canopy.
How Leaf Cutter Ants Feed a Killer Fungus
S1 Ep1 | 3m 44s
Leaf Cutter ants deliver their payload to a fungus underground to grow food.
What Photosynthesis Looks Like Underwater
S1 Ep2 | 2m 17s
Where the plants are dense, it can create sea of fizzing bubbles.
How the Giant Water Lily Dominates
S1 Ep2 | 2m 22s
The Giant Water Lily creates around 40 leaves that each expand to more than 6 feet across.
How Venus Flytraps Count
S1 Ep2 | 2m 50s
Venus Flytraps use two systems to make sure they're catching prey worth eating.
The Orchid that Pretends It’s A Wasp
S1 Ep3 | 3m 38s
The Hammer Orchid emits the scent of the female thynnid wasp to confuse the male.
A Plant Parasite with an Insatiable Appetite
S1 Ep3 | 2m 35s
Meet the Dodder. It moves amongst the young nettles, sucking sap from their stems.
The Fungi that Help Trees Talk
S1 Ep3 | 2m 57s
Fungi is able to link a whole group of trees through their root systems.
How Saguaro Cacti Store 1000 Gallons of Water
S1 Ep4 | 2m 9s
The saguaro features a pleated surface which allows it to expand.
The 12,000-year-old Plant that Barely Grows
S1 Ep4 | 2m
A Creosote plant in the Mojave desert is over 12,000 years old.
Why Elephants Eat the Baobab Tree
S1 Ep4 | 2m 38s
The baobab stores thousands of gallons of water in its spongy wood.
The Plant that Makes Its Home on a Cactus
S1 Ep4 | 3m 16s
Tristerix seeds travel in bird droppings to invade the bodies of giant cactus.
One Sharpshooter Way to Stop an Invasive Plant
S1 Ep5 | 2m 20s
Marksmen use paintballs filled with herbicide shot from a helicopter to stop Miconia.
How “Weeds” Grow in the Sidewalk
S1 Ep5 | 2m 32s
Some plants can survive anywhere, even the heart of the city.
Seeds that Literally Run Away
S1 Ep5 | 2m 27s
Some plants developed adaptations that were unhelpful for the cultivation of crops.
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