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.
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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