Rafflesia arnoldii david attenborough biography
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We may be used to seeing Sir David Attenborough sharing the ways and wonders of animal life with TV viewers - but in a new BBC One series he focuses on something altogether different.
The Green Planet looks at the relationships plants share with the world around them. As we have come to expect from these natural history series, the team behind it travelled all over the world to capture remarkable footage of flowers, cacti, trees and leaves behaving in ways we might not expect. The Regenerators from BBC Bitesize can share some of those images here, as well as the stories behind them.
The biggest flower in the world
In Borneo - the largest island in Asia - a plant grows which has no stem, or leaves, and looks a little like a prop from a s sci-fi movie. The corpse flower, also called Rafflesia, is the world’s biggest, measuring 1m (around 3ft 3in) across in some cases.
It may not look like the plants growing in our flowerbeds or window boxes, but that is part of
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The Green Planet: David Attenborough's five-part series about the world of plants on BBC One
Sir David Attenborough travels across the globe to explore the strange and wonderful world of plants like never before in a new five-part series, The Green Planet, on BBC One.
What is The Green Planet all about?
Visiting 27 countries in total (filming began a long time ago before Covid), David Attenborough travels from the USA to Costa Rica and Croatia to northern Europe, to gain a fresh understanding of how plants live their lives.
Four years in the making, the series documents plant life in and across tropical forests, deserts, freshwater, the seasons, and the human world. David meets the largest living things that have ever existed, from trees that care for each other to plants that hunt animals, all captured using pioneering new filmmaking technology and the very latest science.
'Plants live secret, unseen lives. But they are as aggressive, competitive and dramatic as an
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The Private Life of Plants is a BBC natur documentary series written and presented bygd David Attenborough, first shown in the UK from 11 January
A study of the growth, movement, reproduction and survival of plants, it was the second of Attenborough's specialised surveys following his major trilogy that began with Life on Earth. Each of the six minute episodes discusses aspects of a plant's life-cycle, using examples from around the world.
The series was produced in conjunction with Turner Broadcasting. The executive producer was Mike Salisbury and the music was composed bygd Richard Grassby-Lewis. In , it won a George Foster Peabody Award in the category "Television".
Part of David Attenborough's 'Life' series of programmes, it was preceded by Life in the Freezer (), and followed by The Life of Birds ().
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