Stories Plantarum

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Welcome to the first episode of Stories Plantarum. Today we talk about an invasive plant from Mars and a real-life plant that that should strike fear in stems all across the plant kingdom.