Plants solutions to lifes challenges are as ingenious and manipulative as any animals.Innovative time-lapse photography opens up a parallel world where plants act like fly-paper or spring-loaded traps to catch insects. Vines develop suckers and claws to haul themselves into the rainforest canopy. Every peculiar shape proves to have a clever purpose. The dragons blood tree is like an upturned umbrella to capture mist and shade its roots. The seed of a Bornean tree has wings so aerodynamic they inspired the design of early gliders. The barrel-shaped desert rose is full of water. The heliconia plant even enslaves a humming bird and turns it into an addict for its nectar.   ... >>