Power Plants

- Season 1

(2003)

Somewhere in Africa, deadly acacias pool their efforts to slaughter large antelopes. How do these serial killers communicate their plans to each other?

Bamboo trees, separated by mountains and oceans, flower and die at the very same moment. A coincidence? No - their biological clocks are the finest in the world. Our investigation will take us to the four corners of the earth.

At Hiroshima, a single tree defies the fury of the atomic bomb. Does it contain a substance that would make our cells indestructible?

Years ago, a tree on the island of Mauritius simply stopped reproducing. Today, it is returning to life .

After slumbering for 1300 years in a bed of clay, a lotus seed germinates and flowers. One woman has sworn to pierce the mystery of this eternal seed. The thousand-year-old flower is intact. Magnificent. Nothing can harm or tarnish it.

One day, to ensure its survival, a tree invented blossoms. It was back in the age of dinosaurs. That dinosaur still exists, hidden away in a secret location in the heart of Australia. We set out in search of that fabulous tree.