◎译 名 植物王国
◎片 名 Kingdom of Plants
◎年 代 2012
◎国 家 英国
◎类 别 纪录
◎语 言 英语
◎IMDB评分 N/A
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◎片 长 52Min
◎主 演 David Attenborough ... Himself
◎简 介
本片中心是英国皇家植物园——邱园，位于伦敦西南部的泰晤士河南岸,被联合国指定为世界文化遗产。邱园始建于1759年,原本是英皇乔治三世的皇太后奥格斯汀公主(Augustene)一所私人皇家植物园,起初只有3.6公顷,经过200多年的发展,已扩建成为有120公顷的规模宏大的皇家植物园,加上1965年在距邱园50公里的苏沙斯(Sussex)区开辟了一个240公顷的 Wakehurst卫星植物园,主园加卫星园共有360公顷,成为规模巨大的世界级植物园。
目前邱园收集了全世界超过5万种植物,活的树木便有25万棵之多。邱园植物标本馆收集了500万份标本,图书馆藏75万份世界植物图书和文献,与74个国家的306家研究所有联系,收集了全球重要的植物学期刊。 邱园内建有26个专业花园:水生花园、树木园、杜鹃园、杜鹃谷、竹园、玫瑰园、草园、日本风景园、柏园等。园内还有与植物学科密切相关的建筑,如标本馆、经济植物博物馆和进行生理、生化、形态研究的实验室。此外邱园还有40座有历史价值的古建筑物。经过了几百年的发展和进步,邱园已经从单一娱乐性的植物收集和展示转向植物科学和经济的应用研究。
在邱园,游人不仅可以参观各种植物,在夜晚还可以参加各种有趣的活动:在荷花盛开的时候,小孩可以穿上小雨靴站在水边,用手灯一朵朵地观赏睡莲晚间的开放,家长以此教会孩子们去欣赏那些细腻的自然景象。一年四季,植物园里都有用不同系列的花命名的活动,如`蓝铃周末`或`郁金香周末`。即使在冬天,大家也可以观察藏在树皮下面的嫩芽,体验冬天里生命特有的乐趣。
David begins his journey inside the magnificent Palm House, a unique global rainforest in London. Here, he explores the extraordinary plants that are so well adapted to wet and humid environments and unravels the intimate relationships between wet zone plants and the animals that depend on them.
It was in the wet zones of the world that plants first moved on to land and in the Waterlily House David reveals how flowers first evolved some 140 million years ago.
Watching a kaleidoscope of breath-taking time-lapses of these most primitive of flowers swelling and blooming in 3D, he is able to piece together the very first evolutionary steps that plants took to employ a wealth of insects to carry their precious pollen for the first time.
David discovers clues to answer a question that even had Charles Darwin stumped: how did flowering plants evolve so fast to go on to colonise the entire planet so successfully? He marvels with signature enthusiasm at orchids, the largest family of flowering plants.
Many of these captivating flowers evolved to be pollinated by a single insect species and in doing so developed such complicated contraptions of pollination it’s hard to imagine anything more beautiful. One orchid even looks like a bee.
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