Botany Videos

Click on the link for a zen-tribute to bryophytes — the MOSSES!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWRazeUhg44&feature=PlayList&p=D78EA08CA527FC68&index=38

Click on the link to see how water transport works in trees.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1PqUB7Tu3Y&feature=related

How does plant smells attract polinators?  By smelling like rotten flesh.  Check it out!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHaWu2rcP94&feature=channel

Are you interested in unusual ways plants meet theri nutritional needs?  Here is a series on carnivorous plants. 

1.  First a general introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYGwgzehf6c&NR=1.

2.  Next, general information on how to grow a Venus Flytrap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYGwgzehf6c&NR=1

3.  Of course, you need to know where to get them if you want to grow one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ecLYIihi-o&feature=quicklist

4.  And you need to prepare the best soil for them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih_IXZ2w1_o&feature=quicklist

5.  All plants need water, but too much or too little is not good.  How do you water a Venus Flytrap?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJgcgMs5kJw&feature=quicklist

6.  Feeding plants usually involves fertilizers.  But fertilizers are deadly to Venus Flytraps.  They eat ANIMALS!  So how do you feed them? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjbJUYWOcPg&feature=quicklist

7.  It eats animals!?!  How’d they do that? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edfBrIalq8w&feature=quicklist

8.  And you probably thought only animals hibernate.  Venus Flytraps don’t really hibernate, but go through a winter dormancy.  Tomehto, tomahto.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkAfLHpauHs&feature=quicklist

8.  You can grow Venus Flytraps from seed, but…: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKQEmCASDmw&feature=quicklist

9.  Good ol’ asexual reproduction is best! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP-nTcnf0aw&feature=quicklist

10.  Animals get fleas.  Venus Flytraps get aphids.  That sucks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7TjQ-rs9lY&feature=channel

Plants my not have nervous systems, but the Mimosa pudica sure seems to have something like one.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLTcVNyOhUc

David Attenborough flowering! http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x218rha_private-life-of-plants-flowering_lifestyle

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