Clever Trees Richard Uridge
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A series of five podcasts from around the world on trees that are smart, extraordinary or downright odd. Presented by Richard Uridge.
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Westonbirt's waving trees
In the last of his current series celebrating Clever Trees Richard Uridge visits the National Arboretum at Westonbirt in Gloucestershire, England – with 18,000 specimens a veritable tree university – and talks to the trees.
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Heligan's headache tree
In the fourth of his programmes on Clever Trees Richard Uridge visits the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, England, where he finds a relative of the culinary bay that’s so potent it can give you a headache and another trees that’s smart enough to provide the cure.
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Australia's rain tree
Richard Uridge travels to tropical Far North Queensland in Australia to meet a tree that it's claimed can create its own rainfall to cope with drought conditions. The third in a series of five podcasts from around the world examining arboreal intelligence.
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Washington's Siamese holly trees
Richard Uridge travels to George Washington's home at Mount Vernon in America to meet two holly trees conjoined at the trunk. The first in a series of five podcasts from around the world.
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Malaysia's time telling Simpoh tree
Richard Uridge travels to the Malaysian jungle in search of a tree so clever it can tell the time. Or at least that's what he's been told. So armed with a wristwatch he puts the theory to the test. The second in a series of five podcasts from around the world examining arboreal intelligence.