Plants' solutions to life's challenges are as ingenious and manipulative as any animal's. Innovative time-lapse photography opens up a parallel world where plants act like fly-paper, or spring-loaded traps, to catch insects. Vines develop suckers and claws to haul themselves into the rainforest canopy. The dragon's blood tree is like an upturned umbrella to capture mist and shade its roots. The seed of a Bornean tree has wings so aerodynamic they inspired the design of early gliders, and the heliconia plant enslaves a humming bird and turns it into an addict for its nectar.

Originally released by BBC Worldwide Learning, 2009. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on November 21, 2019.