7/8. Phoenix Trees. Paul Evans investigates the world of phoenix trees, plants that could potentially live for ever.
Instead of growing old and dying, trees of many species are capable of re-inventing themselves by re-growing from slivers of bark, rooting down into their own rotting trunks or even growing from branch tips and walking across the landscape over thousands of years. Paul meets the scientists studying these trees and the remarkable partnership they have With fungi. Repeated from yesterday at 9pm