Plant Life The Sensitive Plant

Record ID: 123434
  • Title: Plant Life The Sensitive Plant
  • Date: 29th October 1993
  • Summary: FROM OUR PERCEPTION OF TIME, PLANTS HARDLY SEEM TO MOVE AT ALL. LITERALLY ROOTED TO THE SPOT AND SLOW-GROWING, ITS ONLY WHEN TIME-LAPSE CAMERAS ALTER THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION THAT THE STRANGE, BEAUTIFUL AND FASCINATING WORLD OF PLANT MOVEMENT BECOMES OBVIOUS. IN THIS PROGRAMME WE SHOW HOW PLANTS RESPOND THROUGH GROWTH HORMONES TO GRAVITY, LIGHT AND TOUCH. BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS CONTROL DANCE LIKE SLEEP MOVEMENTS IN LEAVES AND SET THE TIME OF DAY AND SEASON WHEN FLOWERS OPEN. THE TWINNINGS OF TENDRILS AND CLIMBERS FASCINATED CHARLES DARWIN AS DID THE PLANTS THAT CAPTURE INSECTS IN TRAPS OR STICKY LEAVES. ALL THIS AND MORE IS CELEBRATED IN A STRIKING VISUAL PRESENTATION OF THE MOVING SENSITIVE PLANT.
  • Description:BOTANICAL MYSTERIES OF PLANT LIFE REVEALED.
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:Flashback Television Ltd.
  • Programme Episode:Episode 2
  • Transmission Date:29/10/1993
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 1990s
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