Branch Out podcast
Listen to our award-winning podcast Branch Out to discover the surprising world of plants featuring experts from around the world.
Discover the surprising world of plants in our award-winning Branch Out podcast.
Whether it’s investigating plant intelligence, solving crimes, sending seeds to space, or learning about witchcraft – prepare to be amazed by the power of plants. In each episode of Branch Out you’ll join host and producer, Vanessa Fuchs, to uncover fascinating stories about plants and the cutting-edge science and horticulture that goes into saving them.
Listen to the latest episode
Episode 50: Curating plant-love at The Calyx
Go behind the scenes with Senior Horticulturist Terra-Nova Sadowski at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney to discover what it takes to curate and care for the incredible display of over 20,000 plants inside The Calyx. The latest immersive horticulture display is called Love Your Nature. It celebrates and showcases the colourful, diverse, and fascinating world of plant reproduction and diversity. You'll learn about prehistoric plants that use clones, spores, and seeds to reproduce, and flowering plants that employ colours, shapes, and scents to attract animals.
Episode 19: Lift off with a NASA astronaut to explore plants in space. 
Episode 4: The dinosaur plant thought to be extinct for 60 million years, and accidentally discovered on a bushwalk. 
Episode 16: Luckily, chocolate *does* grow on trees! Learn how this delicious treat goes from bean to bar.
All episodes
Episode 50: Curating plant-love at The Calyx
Episode 49: Fast Flora Facts - Machete-wielding plant
Episode 48: Tree detective at the pub
Episode 47: Fast Flora Facts - is loving nature in your DNA?
Episode 46: Predicting seed germination under climate change
Episode 45: Fast Flora Facts - famous friendship plant
Episode 44: Saving orchids from extinction
Episode 43: Fast Flora Facts - tulip mania
Episode 41: Fast Flora Facts - forensic botany
Episode 40: Witchcraft revival and the power of plants
Episode 39: Fast Flora Facts - photosynthesis
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