Clever Trees

Richard Uridge

4.4 (11)
NATURAL SCIENCES

A series of five podcasts from around the world on trees that are smart, extraordinary or downright odd.

03/18/2010

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.

14 min
03/18/2010

Heligan's headache tree

In the penultimate programme of his five part series on Clever Trees, Richard Uridge finds a headache-inducing specimen in the Lost Gardens of Heligan.

14 min
08/22/2009

Australia's rain tree

In the the third of his series on arboreal intelligence Richard Uridge travels to tropical Far North Queensland in Australia to meet a tree that can, it's claimed, create its own rainfall.

14 min
06/17/2009

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.

14 min
06/17/2009

Malaysia's time telling Simpoh tree

In the second of his series on arboreal intelligence Richard Uridge travels to the Malaysian jungle in search of a tree so clever it can tell the time. Or at least that's the theory. Armed with a wristwatch he puts it to the test.

14 min

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A series of five podcasts from around the world on trees that are smart, extraordinary or downright odd.

Creator

Richard Uridge
Years Active

2009 - 2010
Episodes

5
Rating

Clean
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