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you're watching a Nova Video
podcast flowering plants have been
around for roughly 120 million years but
surprisingly many of the flowers we find
in our Gardens today share a common
place of origin in this clip from Nova
join botanist Ying Kaio and plant EXP
Explorer Dan hinley as they journey
through China the birthplace of many of
the world's Botanical
wonders China the mother of
gardens whether it be the ferns whether
it be the maples the rod dendrons
Chamas the lies the
iris we're in their place of origin
right here this is where they came from
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their first stop is an Alpine Meadow at
14,000
ft Hinkley barely gets out of the car
before he sees what makes the hungan
mountain so
special
look Forum oh my gosh the first time
I've ever seen this in Blossom it's f
it's fantastic oh that's a COR Cory
Dallas here curv of Flora yeah and alien
superi
uranium look at
that should we come
up oh my gosh that's just
extraordinary lilium lafa Forum it's
first time I've ever seen it in flower
the the petals don't completely
disattach which makes it so exquisite so
we have hearty geraniums lies Gins
euphorbias there's even an adal visce
here
leontopodium which is mostly associated
with the elps in Europe uh a spruce Pisa
a
potentilla uh primulas anatomies it is
absolutely staggering the number of of
Gena that we are familiar with in a
garden setting that is in this small
little piece of of land in front of me
that has been grazed by a and cut uh for
the roadway
liilia batrium which is a fern and uh
arinara it's
Spa it it goes on and on it's absolutely
staggering this little enamine is quite
Exquisite I think particularly so for
that blue staining on the unders surface
of each te unbelievable
I'm not sure but I think that unless
you're looking at something else this is
another Lily it's the same Lily yeah
it's lilan oh jeez I just saw it Oh
God that is
unbelievable oh my
God this is
extraordinary SI redium tibeticum is a
rare species of the much sought after
lady slipper orchids named after the
unusual pouch created by a modified
pedal Professor
Yen oh
unbelievable there's a lot of people
that would love to be here right this
moment sitting in Yak dun I mean it's it
is just amazing to see this
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