Life (2009 TV series)

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*Some plants have adapted to survive environmental extremes. [[Dracaena cinnabari|Dragon's blood tree]]s and desert roses thrive on arid [[Socotra]], and coastal [[mangrove]] trees survive by filtering salt from seawater.
*Some plants have adapted to survive environmental extremes. [[Dracaena cinnabari|Dragon's blood tree]]s and desert roses thrive on arid [[Socotra]], and coastal [[mangrove]] trees survive by filtering salt from seawater.
*[[Bristlecone pine]]s live above 3,000 m in North America's mountains. They have a six-week growing season and can live for 5,000 years, making them the oldest living things on Earth.
*[[Bristlecone pine]]s live above 3,000 m in North America's mountains. They have a six-week growing season and can live for 5,000 years, making them the oldest living things on Earth.
*[[Grass]]es are the most successful of all plants. Of their 10,000 varieties, two cover more land than any other plant: rice and wheat. ''Life on Location: Time Warp'' goes behind the scenes of a time-lapse sequence in an English woodland. Because actually growing plants outdoors would prove a challenge to film (with constantly changing conditions) this scene used plants grown in a studio on a [[chroma key|bluescreen]] duplicating a real outdoor backdrop. The entire process took two years to make.<ref name=bbc-episode-9>{{cite episode |title=Plants |series=Life |credits=Produced by Neil Lucas |network=BBC |station=BBC One |airdate=2009-12-07|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p90d6}}</ref>
*[[Grass]]es are the most successful of all plants. Of their 10,000 varieties, two cover more land than any other plant: rice and wheat.
*''Life on Location: Time Warp'' goes behind the scenes of a time-lapse sequence in an English woodland. Because actually growing plants outdoors would prove a challenge to film (with constantly changing conditions) this scene used plants grown in a studio on a [[chroma key|bluescreen]] duplicating a real outdoor backdrop. The entire process took two years to make.<ref name=bbc-episode-9>{{cite episode |title=Plants |series=Life |credits=Produced by Neil Lucas |network=BBC |station=BBC One |airdate=2009-12-07|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p90d6}}</ref>
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