7 episodes

Stories Plantarum is a podcast that compares fictional plants from Sci-Fi and Fantasy to real-life plants that seem out of this world. Follow on twitter @PlantarumPod. Hosted by Rebecca Hayes @BigGirlPlants.

Stories Plantarum Rebecca Hayes

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Stories Plantarum is a podcast that compares fictional plants from Sci-Fi and Fantasy to real-life plants that seem out of this world. Follow on twitter @PlantarumPod. Hosted by Rebecca Hayes @BigGirlPlants.

    Ep. 7: Stories Of The Solstice

    Ep. 7: Stories Of The Solstice

    This episode details the fascinating history of many of the plants associated with Christmastime and the winter solstice. Have a happy new year!

    Link to transcript: https://community.plantae.org/path/5355984225331840491
    Link to Caga Tio video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o18kwRheh9Y

    Follow and get in contact on social media!
    Twitter: @PlantarumPod
    Facebook: facebook.com/PlantarumPod

    Hosted by Rebecca Hayes, @BigGirlPlants on Twitter.

    • 38 min
    Ep. 6: Saving The Forest Through The Trees

    Ep. 6: Saving The Forest Through The Trees

    This episode focuses on the heroic conservation story in Dr. Seuss's The Lorax, the real-life tree that may have inspired Truffula Trees, and a real-life environmental and human rights activist Wangari Maathai, who created a movement that to this day, has planted millions of trees.

    Link to transcript: https://community.plantae.org/path/5355984225331840491
    Link to watch Taking Root documentary: (English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjs0F8FdSCw
    (All other languages) https://vimeopro.com/marlboroproductions/taking-root-the-vision-of-wangari-maathai
    Link to listen to "The Leopard and the Lung" by The Joy Formidable :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cbJHq2JqYE

    Follow and get in contact on social media!
    Twitter: @PlantarumPod
    Facebook: facebook.com/PlantarumPod

    Hosted by Rebecca Hayes, @BigGirlPlants on Twitter.

    • 26 min
    Ep. 5: Upside Down And Underground

    Ep. 5: Upside Down And Underground

    This episode gets down to the roots of an interdimensional monster with floral fangs and a real-life parasitic plant that looks just as ferocious.

    Featuring the Demogorgon from Stranger Things and Hydnora africana.

    Transcripts can be found here: https://community.plantae.org/path/5355984225331840491

    Follow and get in contact on social media!
    Twitter: @PlantarumPod
    Facebook: facebook.com/PlantarumPod

    Hosted by Rebecca Hayes, @BigGirlPlants on Twitter. Keep up to date on this podcast and other projects on https://community.plantae.org/user/rah107

    • 23 min
    Ep. 4: Deadly Dreams

    Ep. 4: Deadly Dreams

    In this episode, we get down to business with two plants that could be a sweet dream or a beautiful (or terrifying) nightmare.

    Featuring DC Comic's Black Mercy and Datura.

    • 16 min
    Ep. 3: Hidden Giants

    Ep. 3: Hidden Giants

    This week's episode is about an island that walks like a man and the largest organism by mass on the planet.

    • 9 min
    Ep. 2: Tall wood, Old wood, Redwood, Gold wood

    Ep. 2: Tall wood, Old wood, Redwood, Gold wood

    This week's episode is all about a tree from Middle Earth whose tallest branches support an Elvish city and a real-life tree that supports a diverse community of organisms hundreds of feet from the ground.

    • 9 min

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