BBC has a good documentary on plants, hosted by Richard Attenborough, a series.
Plants are green straws.
Plants are extreme slow-motion green animals.
Only time-lapse photography reveals plants' true nature - as competitive and hostile as every other species.
I have only watched one of these shows so far, but two memorable things:
1) a heroic white guy saving a rare orchid found only in some water hole local niggers are using to bathe their elephantine selves. The white guy, who I think is a Spaniard, figures out how to breed these orchids
2) per plants real nature, their film shows one of these creeper vines trying and trying and trying to land it's hook on a plant leaf and then finally catching it so it can climb aboard, just like a gangplank for a pirate ship. Competition is indeed nature's guiding principle, it seems.
Last edited by Alex Linder; February 16th, 2014 at 11:04 AM.
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