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.

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What the Flora?! Season 1

Episode 1 - Bushfires: pushing plants to extinction

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.

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Episode 2 - DNA Science: Restoring Australia’s Landscape

In this episode of What the Flora?! We investigate why scientists are mapping the DNA of plant populations.

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Episode 3 - Orchids: Getting a Helping Hand in Survival

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.

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Episode 4 – Myrtle Rust: Pushing the Myrtle Family to Extinction

Did you know that our native species are battling their own plant pandemic? Myrtle rust is threatening the survival of our ecosystems.

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Episode 5 - The priceless filing cabinet for plants you’ve never heard of

In this episode of What the Flora?! we explain the important work that the Herbarium supports and why a new Herbarium is being built.

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Episode 1 - Bushfires: pushing plants to extinction

What the Flora?! Q&A series

What the Flora?! Q&A: Cycad Sex

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!

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What the Flora?! Q&A: Orchids

Everybody knows what an orchid is... but did you know there's over 25,000 species?

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What the Flora?! Q&A: Adapting to Australia

Discover how some Aussie plants have evolved to love a sunburnt country.

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