And this is a living organism that has a mass of at least 2,000 tons.

Vegetation

Plants grow.

They don't have roots that go into trunks nor to the forest floor.

Fucked for life.

Poor creatures.

But my passion in addition to Jack and my children are the plants, the so called epiphytes, those plants that grow up on trees.

(Laughter)

Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison.

I mean literally wrote the book on Pandoran botany.

And the tissue's very expensive.

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The song I'm going to sing, I wrote, is called Green because ... (?)

Let's go to Madurai, India and test it.

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One of 'em makes people glow in the dark.

As it's gotten warmer on the top of the mountain, the vegetation zone is actually changing.

So here's the next challenge.

I don't like your odds.

Fungi married algae ... clinging to rock, and eating it too ... transforming barren land. True land plants arose, leafless at first.

like a social network.

You know, the cacti, the vegetation, that kind of thing.

And here it is

The more worthless the plant, the more rapid and splendid is its growth.

In other words, when they are living, by these creatures living here plants are allowed to live, and by these plants living here small creatures are allowed to live.

I'd love to have an opinion of a paleobotanist as well.

Humans destroy them.

You don't have any plants or animals, right?

What do they do?

Not enough examples.

They are able to distinguish kin and non kin.

Dudley, Dudley.

These epiphytes are mainly dominated by the mosses.

I say, Oh, no, I continue.

I mean it's not like they have angle a trons.

This is the most successful order on the planet by far.

Continuation of their lives as plants is a blessing for them.

The birth rate has been decreasing recently.

Next time they will do better.

Incidences of leukaemia, tuberculosis and meningitis have dropped considerably.

If it's not, it reminds you just how bad your life really is.

I devoted half of it to rebuild the herbarium, because we didn't have good infrastructure to start plants.

You get fungi, you get fish, you get plants, you get amphibia, you get reptiles, and then, of course, you get the dinosaurs.

There are 130 indigenous species of vegetation.

Plant.