Branch Out podcast
Listen to our award-winning podcast Branch Out to discover the surprising world of plants featuring passionate scientists and plant experts from around the world.
Discover the surprising world of plants
Prepare to go on an audio adventure to 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 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.
Loved by botanists, armchair scientists, and gardening enthusiasts alike, Branch Out is your behind-the-scenes pass into our botanic gardens, science facilities, the Australian bush, and the minds of passionate plant experts from around the world.
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Episode 49: Machete-wielding plant
Discover how artist David Bowen turned the harmless Philodendron into a machete-wielding plant in the latest Fast Flora Facts edition of Branch Out.
Episode 48: Tree detective at the pub
Branch Out host, Vanessa Fuchs, went on a field trip to the Keg and Brew in Surry Hills, Sydney for the Pint of Science event earlier this year. Hit play below to hear about the effect of climate change on urban trees from Dr Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez, the "tree detective" from Western Sydney University.
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.
More episodes
- 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 42: Zero waste hacks
- Episode 41: Fast Flora Facts - forensic botany
- Episode 40: Witchcraft revival and the power of plants
- Episode 39: Fast Flora Facts - photosynthesis
- Episode 38: Solving the waratah's genetic puzzle
- Episode 37: Fast Flora Facts - trees
- Episode 36: Talking about plants
- Episode 35: Extreme botany
- Episode 34: Tree change
- Episode 33: Heal country
- Episode 32: Starting in science
- Episode 31: The plant world economy
- Episode 30: Let's talk about plant sex
- Episode 29: Poisonous plants
- Episode 28: Battling a plant disease pandemic
- Episode 27: Plants that heal
- Episode 26: Bushfire impacts, recovery and outlook
- Episode 25: Amazing plant-based inventions
- Episode 24: No plants no wine
- Episode 23: Banking our bush foods
- Episode 22: Climate change and future-proofing plants
- Episode 21: Deceptive and dangerous stingers
- Episode 20: Branch Out goes off track
- Episode 19: Plants in space
- Episode 18: Unlocking the power of plant DNA
- Episode 17: Plant vs human intelligence
- Episode 16: No plants no chocolate
- Episode 15: Explore Aboriginal culture in Sydney
- Episode 14: Mistletoe - a festive and freaky parasite
- Episode 13: Nature play keeps the doctor away
- Episode 12: Bizarre bee-haviour and snotty gobbles
- Episode 11: Cow paddock to biggest botanic garden
- Episode 10: Plants with bite
- Episode 9: What is a herbarium?
- Episode 8: Gardens grow communities
- Episode 7: Barbara Briggs - detective botany and DNA
- Episode 6: Botany, bryophytes and a bizarre discovery
- Episode 5: No plants no future
- Episode 4: No plants no past
- Episode 3: No plants no animals
- Episode 2: No plants no food
- Episode 1: No plants no medicine
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