Australia's rain tree

from Clever Trees · host Richard Uridge

In the the third of his series on arboreal intelligence Richard Uridge travels to tropical Far North Queensland in Australia to meet a tree that can, it's claimed, create its own rainfall.

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Richard Uridge travels to tropical Far North Queensland in Australia to meet a tree that it's claimed can create its own rainfall to cope with drought conditions. The third in a series of five podcasts from around the world examining arboreal intelligence.

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