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  • Ep. 1: Banana
    2018/05/08
    Sue Perkins presents a pocket-sized guide to the humble banana, the world's largest herb. Hear how they're available not just in yellow, but in red, orange and purple varieties, and discover that they have so much potassium in them that they're slightly radioactive.
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    13 分
  • Ep. 2: Welwitschia Mirabilis
    2018/05/08
    Sue Perkins presents an audio guide to one of the world's ugliest plants, which resembles a huge jumble of fraying, dying leaves that have been carelessly dumped out of the back of a van onto the dusty, desert ground.
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    11 分
  • Ep. 3: Coconut
    2018/05/08
    Sue Perkins presents a guide to the coconut. You might be thinking of piña coladas on the beach but the coconut itself is not only a tasty form of food and drink, but also a textile, a building material and so much more.
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    12 分
  • Ep. 4: Venus Flytrap
    2018/05/08
    Sue Perkins presents a guide to the endangered Venus flytrap, whose name is slightly misleading. Only about 5% of its diet is made up of flies, with the majority consisting of ants, spiders, beetles, grasshoppers, and the occasional small frog.
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    13 分
  • Ep. 5: Squirting Cucumber
    2018/05/08
    Sue Perkins presents a guide to the squirting cucumber. As the name might suggest this is a rough and hairy plant with bulbous fruit filled to bursting point with sticky juice and seeds which it can shoot 20 feet in the air.
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    11 分
  • Ep. 6: Drakaea Livida
    2018/05/08
    Sue Perkins presents a guide to the Warty Hammer Orchid, which has an extremely cunning way of attracting the thynnid wasp to pollinate it - it disguises itself as the female wasp.
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    11 分
  • Ep. 7: Giant Water Lily
    2018/05/08
    Sue Perkins presents a guide to the floral queen of the Amazon, the Giant Water Lily, which can grow up to three metres across and inspired the design for the Crystal Palace used for the 1851 Great Exhibition.
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    11 分
  • Ep. 8: Theobroma Coca
    2018/05/08
    Sue Perkins presents a guide to the cocoa plant. Hear about its origins on the Amazonian slopes of the Andes in Columbia and Ecuador. A chocolate fan? Find out how cocoa plants are fatally poisonous, and can cause diarrhoea, vomiting, heart attacks and death.
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    12 分