What the Flora!?
Prepare to be amazed by plants and the cutting-edge research that goes into saving them in our YouTube series that’ll have you saying: What the Flora!?
In each episode of What the Flora!? you'll get up close with Australia's unique plant life with your host Vanessa Fuchs.
Discover how experts are delivering real solutions to protect plants and our future. From hand pollinating tiny, endangered orchids with toothpicks to battling plant diseases with DNA science, What the Flora!? is your chance to see cutting-edge conservation in action.
What the Flora!? Season 3
Travel into the remote wilderness of New South Wales, Australia as a team of botanical experts track down one of the most endangered group of plants in the world - Cycads.
Learn amazing facts about what makes these prized, prehistoric plants so special and the cutting-edge conservation work that goes into protecting them.
Discover why the biggest and smelliest flower in the world is on the brink of extinction and how botanic gardens play a huge role in conserving this precious species.
Australia is home to the dinosaur tree: the Wollemia nobilis, or Wollemi Pine. Discovered in a deep canyon in 1994 by an off-duty park ranger, these living fossils have survived for 200 million years — so why are they at serious risk of extinction?
For generations, scientists struggled to understand how flowering plants came to dominate Earth’s lands. These plants, known as angiosperms, exist in almost every environment and account for about 90% of all known plant life on the planet, forming vital ecosystems, habitats, and food sources.
Now, Botanic Gardens of Sydney have collaborated in a global team of 279 scientists led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to assemble the most comprehensive angiosperm ‘Tree of Life’ ever.
Episode 1 - Saving Cycads from extinction (part 1)
What the Flora!? Season 2
If you thought getting a date was hard… imagine being a rare cycad, and your only hope at love is getting pollen posted from the other side of the world!
Everybody knows what an orchid is... but did you know there's over 25,000 species?
Discover how some Aussie plants have evolved to love a sunburnt country.
It is estimated that one third of plant species are threatened with extinction. Discover the best ways you can help save plants.
Delve into the fascinating world of plant love.
What the Flora!? Season 1
Last summer, about 7 billion trees were impacted by the bushfires. Discover how scientists are using seed-banking to guard our endangered native plant species against extinction.
In this episode of What the Flora!? We investigate why scientists are mapping the DNA of plant populations.
Orchids are like the canaries of our ecosystems – their health acts as an indicator of overall ecosystem health. Watch the latest episode of What the Flora!? To find why scientists are trying to protect the world’s orchids.
Did you know that our native species are battling their own plant pandemic? Myrtle rust is threatening the survival of our ecosystems.
In this episode of What the Flora!? we explain the important work that the Herbarium supports and why a new Herbarium is being built.
Episode 1 - Bushfires: pushing plants to extinction