Plants' solutions to life's challenges are as ingenious and manipulative as any animal's.
This episode focuses on plants rather than animals, starting with various trees, like the dragon's blood tree, their speed of growth as well general longevity. Then it continues to talk about vines and lianas and the exotic air-plant, how it gets nutrients not from the ground, but seemingly from air. Other plants have to catch insects to augment their diet, like the sundew and the Venus flytrap.
Most other plants, from the sunflowers to Richea Honey Bush use insects as pollinators instead; but the Heliconia plant prefers to use hummingbirds, and even bats can pollinate.
The seeds are disturbed by an equally wide variety of animals and plants use all sorts of tricks to spread them.
The episode ends on a discussion of the plants surviving various harsh conditions, from Australian desert to winter's frost, and their subsequent recovery whenever the climate improves once more
